Jason Fernandes

Jason Fernandes has worked in a variety of roles in the scientific field. In 2020, they were a Biomedical Scientist at Scribe Therapeutics. In 2019, they were a Project Scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2018, they were a Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. In 2016, they were a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. From 2005 to 2012, they were a Postdoctoral Scholar and PhD Candidate at UCSF, where they investigated the evolutionary consequences of overlapped reading frames in HIV-1 and characterized the human-HIV protein interactome for HIV-1 Rev. From 2012 to 2016, they were an Adjunct Faculty at the University of San Francisco. From 2004 to 2005, they were a Research Assistant at the Columbia University Genome Center in the Laboratory of Dr. Jingyue Ju. From 2003 to 2004, they were a Research Assistant at the Bronx VA Medical Center/Mount Sianai School of Medicine in the Laboratory of Dr. William Byne. From 2003 to 2004, they were a Research Assistant at Columbia University in the Laboratory of Dr. Daniel MacDonald. From 2000 to 2003, they were a Research Assistant at Childrens Hospital Oakland in the laboratory of Dr. John Rowland.

Jason Fernandes attended Columbia University from 2001 to 2005, where they earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Computer Science. From 2005 to 2013, they attended the University of California, San Francisco, where they earned a PhD in the Program in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics, with a focus in Viral Evolution and Proteomics. Jason then completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Genome Sciences/Genomics from 2016 to 2019.