
Bio/Description
Fenna Krienen is an Assistant Professor at Princeton Neuroscience Institute. She obtained her BA at UC Berkeley, PhD at Harvard University and postdoc at Harvard Medical School. Her lab uses genome sequencing technologies such as single cell sequencing to study cellular and molecular innovations in mammalian brain cell types. A core interest in the lab is how brain cell types develop and evolve. She is a SFARI Foundation Bridge to Independence Fellow, an Allen Institute Next Generation Leader, and a Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship awardee. She grew up in the Florida Keys and has two little kids and a fondness for (watching) basketball.