Jennifer Fenner-Range is an Assistant Professor in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Department at Kennesaw State University. Jen is a first generational college student and received her B.S. in Genetic Engineering from Cedar Crest College in Allentown PA. She received her PhD in Biology from Mississippi State University where she studied developmental plasticity of butterfly wing color patterns and hybridization in the Southern and California Dogface butterflies. Afterwards Jen moved to Auburn University as a Postdoctoral Fellow to research Axial patterning mechanisms and Wnt signaling during embryogenesis in marine invertebrates (sea urchins and hemichordates). Outside of the lab she is a mom and cat mom. She is an all around nerd who plays D&D and video games and loves reading science fiction and fantasy (Asmiov and Tolkien are her favorites).