Plummer Lab Team

Jasmine Plummer received a master’s degree in neuroscience from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia and a PhD in molecular genetics from the University of Toronto. She then studied as a postdoctoral fellow at the Saban Research Institute at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. . Before joining St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as an Associate Member of the Department of Developmental Neurobiology, Dr. Plummer was an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Sciences as well as Co-Director of the PhD Genomics Core and Associate Director of the Applied Genomics, Computational and Translational Core at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Plummer is also the Director of the Center for Spatial Omics at St. Jude. Her research focuses on using a multi-omics approach to examine genetic risk as a factor of oncogenesis.

Dr. Plummer has received several awards including the OSOTF James Crothers Peripheral Nerve Damage Fellowship Award, the Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute Young Scholars Award, the Autism Speaks Meixner Post-Doctoral Fellow Award, T.E.A.L Foundation Award and the Tina’s Wish award.

Affiliations

Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance
African Caribbean Single-Cell Network (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative)
Human Cell Atlas