Dr. Jennifer Gladys Mulle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University. Dr. Mulle studies rare genomic variants associated with schizophrenia with a specific focus on the 3q29 deletion. This 1.6 Mb deletion results in hemizygosity of 21 genes and confers a 40-fold increase in risk, the highest known effect size for any schizophrenia-associated locus. Dr. Mulle’s research program employs multiple modalities, including animal models, human cellular models, and clinical phenotyping studies, to understand the behavioral and biological impact of the 3q29 deletion.
Dr. Mulle loves her husband and children, her dogs, her research program, and Beyonce, in that order. She currently has three large cow-shaped dogs, which is both too many and not enough.