Rate My Professor Jennifer Armstrong

Jennifer Armstrong is Professor of Biology and Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr. Chair in Natural Sciences at Scripps College, a position she has held within the W.M. Keck Science Department of the Claremont Colleges since joining the faculty in 2003. She earned a B.S. in biochemistry from New Mexico State University, a Ph.D. in biology from the University of California, San Diego in collaboration with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and completed postdoctoral fellowship training at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Armstrong's research specializes in chromatin structure and gene regulation, employing Drosophila melanogaster as a model system to explore the functions of chromatin remodeling factors such as CHD1, BRM, and ISWI in chromosome organization, histone dynamics, and transcriptional regulation. Her notable publications include "Investigations of CHD1 function in transcription and development of Drosophila melanogaster" (Genetics, 2008), "The Drosophila melanogaster CHD1 chromatin remodeling factor modulates global chromosome structure and counteracts HP1a and H3K9me2" (PLoS One, 2013), "Genetic screens for enhancers of brahma reveal functional interactions between the BRM chromatin-remodeling complex and the delta-notch signal transduction pathway in Drosophila" (Genetics, 2005), "Genetic identification of a network of factors that functionally interact with the nucleosome remodeling ATPase ISWI" (PLoS Genetics, 2008), and "A key role for Chd1 in histone H3 dynamics at the 3' ends of long genes in yeast" (PLoS Genetics, 2012).