Jen earned her BS in genetic biology from Purdue University and her PhD in molecular genetics from the Washington University in St. Louis. She studied the genetics of cardiomyopathy during a postdoctoral research fellowship at Duke University before completing ABMGG fellowships in clinical Cytogenetics and Clinical Molecular Genetics at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her clinical interests include using SNP-microarray based testing to identify submicroscopic copy number changes in individuals with developmental delay and birth defects. Ferrin keeps busy outside the lab by playing soccer, running and hanging out with her family.