Joanna

Feehan

Joanna Feehan's scientific career is formed by diverse experiences. She completed a Bachelor's Degree in nursing before a master's degree in cell biology studying retinopathies using Xenopus laevis tadpole models at the University of British Columbia. For her PhD, she joined the lab of Jonathan Jones at The Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich, UK where she used biochemical approaches to understand signaling mechanisms in plant-pathogen defense responses. As a visiting scientist here at Carnegie, she is working as a Postdoc with Sue Rhee at Michigan State University to understand the mechanisms of extreme heat-adaptation by Tidestromia oblongifolia using population genomics approaches.