Vanessa is from California. After graduating with a B.S. in Biology from Pepperdine University in 2001, In the Burtatowski lab, she studied the roles of the Rpb4 subunit of RNA polymerase II during the process of transcription. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Brigham and Women's hospital.
Jessica obtained her B.A. in Biology-Chemistry from Scripps College in Claremont, CA in 2001. Her work focused on studying the regulation of RNA polymerase II elongation, more specifically the role of the Paf1 complex as well as the SR protein, Npl3. After graduation, Jessica did postdoctoral work at Stanford and is currently Director of R&D Science at the company ProteinSimple.