JianJun Jin

Formulating software for the study of plant genomes

- Ari Sen

FIELD PLANT GENOMICS New York Botanical Garden AGE 36

In a single day, JianJun Jin might switch from writing code on his computer to experimenting at a lab bench or working under greenhouse lights as an assistant curator at the New York Botanical Garden.

His research spans several fields—plant systematics, genomics and computational biology—and his aim is to better understand the inner workings of plants.