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Researchers in genetics, genomics, and genome engineering

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Jeff Schell

Jozef Stefaan "Jeff" Schell (1935–2003) was a Belgian molecular biologist who pioneered Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation, enabling the first transgenic plants and co-founding Plant Genetic Systems in Ghent in 1982.

Jeffrey C. Barrett

Jeffrey C. Barrett is a statistical geneticist known for the Haploview software, inflammatory bowel disease genetics, and the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study of rare disease.

Jeffrey C. Murray

Jeffrey C. Murray is an American pediatrician and human geneticist at the University of Iowa known for identifying the first cleft lip and palate genes.

Jeffrey D. Palmer

Jeffrey D. Palmer is an American molecular biologist and Indiana University professor known for pioneering plant organelle genomics, discovering organelle-to-nucleus gene transfer, and entering the National Academy of Sciences in 2000.

Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

Jeffrey L. Bennetzen is an American plant geneticist at the University of Georgia known for showing that transposable elements make up most of the maize genome.

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain

Jeffrey S. Chamberlain is an American molecular geneticist at the University of Washington who invented micro-dystrophin, work underlying the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a muscular dystrophy.

Jennifer A. Doudna

Jennifer A. Doudna, born 1964, is an American biochemist at the University of California, Berkeley, who developed CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

Jennifer A. Marshall Graves, born 1941, is an Australian geneticist known for work on mammalian sex chromosome evolution and predicting the human Y chromosome's disappearance.

Jennifer L. Gerton

Jennifer L. Gerton is a geneticist at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, who studies centromeres and how chromosomes segregate during cell division.

Jenny Graves

Jenny Graves, full name Jennifer Ann Marshall Graves, is an Australian geneticist at La Trobe University whose comparative genomics work transformed understanding of how mammalian sex chromosomes evolved and decay.

Jenny Tung

Jenny Tung (born 1982) is an American evolutionary geneticist who studies how social environments shape gene regulation and health, directing a Max Planck Institute department in Leipzig.

Jens Clausen

Jens Christian Clausen (1891–1969) was a Danish-American botanist who pioneered ecological genetics. He led the Carnegie Institution of Washington at Stanford and conducted transplant-garden experiments.

Jeremy Schmutz

Jeremy Schmutz is an American plant genomicist who co-directs the Genome Sequencing Center at HudsonAlpha in Huntsville, Alabama, and leads the Joint Genome Institute's Plant Program.

Jérôme Déjardin

Jérôme Déjardin (born 1975) is a French molecular biologist who heads the Genome Dynamics department at the Institut de Génétique Humaine in Montpellier and developed PICh.

Jerome I. Rotter

Jerome I. Rotter is an American medical geneticist and genetic epidemiologist known for the genetics of common diseases, especially diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease, in multi-ethnic American populations.

Jerry A. Coyne

Jerry A. Coyne, also known as Jerry Coyne, is an American evolutionary geneticist at the University of Chicago known for research on the genetics of speciation.

Jian Yang (molecular biologist, The University of Queensland)

Jian Yang (杨剑) is a Chinese statistical geneticist at Westlake University, known for developing GCTA and showing that missing heritability comes from many tiny variant effects.

Jim Peacock

Jim Peacock was an Australian plant molecular biologist who led CSIRO's Division of Plant Industry from 1978 to 2003 and served as Australia's Chief Scientist from 2006 to 2008.

Jiming Jiang

Jiming Jiang is a Chinese-American plant geneticist and cytogeneticist, an MSU Research Foundation Professor at Michigan State University known for sequencing the rice centromere in 2004.

Jin Billy Li

Jin Billy Li is a molecular geneticist at Stanford University whose laboratory develops methods for detecting A-to-I RNA editing and created the RADAR database of editing sites.

Jin‐Soo Kim

Jin-Soo Kim is a South Korean biochemist and genome-editing researcher, a professor at KAIST since 2025, who was first to patent CRISPR-Cas9 in eukaryotic cells in 2012 and created Cas-OFFinder and TALEDs.

Joan C. Marini

Joan C. Marini is a medical geneticist who leads the bone and extracellular matrix section at NIH's NICHD, known for discovering recessive osteogenesis imperfecta genes.

Joan M. O’Brien

Joan M. O'Brien is an American ophthalmologist and geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania who studies the genetics of eye disease, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013.

Joaquı́n Mateo

Joaquín Mateo is a Spanish medical oncologist and prostate cancer researcher who leads the Prostate Cancer Research Group at the Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology in Barcelona.

Job Dekker

Job Dekker is a Dutch-born molecular biologist and geneticist at UMass Chan Medical School known for developing chromosome conformation capture, which opened the 3D genome to measurement.

Joe Leigh Simpson

Joe Leigh Simpson is an American reproductive geneticist at Florida International University, a member of the National Academy of Medicine and Sciences, and former president of several reproductive medicine societies.

Joel Gelernter

Joel Gelernter is an American psychiatrist and human geneticist at Yale University School of Medicine, known for large multi-ancestry genome-wide studies of problematic alcohol use and cannabis use disorder.

Joel N. Hirschhorn

Joel N. Hirschhorn is an American human geneticist at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School who chairs the GIANT consortium studying the genes behind human height and obesity.

John A. Todd (medical geneticist)

John A. Todd (John Andrew Todd) is a British medical geneticist known for his work on the genetics and prevention of type 1 diabetes, and a professor at Oxford.

John Andrew Pospisilik

John Andrew Pospisilik (born 1976, Vancouver) is a Canadian epigeneticist who chairs the Department of Epigenetics at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, since 2018.