Elaine Janet, Hager

Janet Hager obtained her BSc degree in Biology in the UK and joined the graduate program in Biology at the University of Virginia earning her Doctoral degree with Dr. Oscar Miller Jr. visualizing gene activity in Drosophila.  She completed her postdoctoral training at Stanford University and UCLA investigating muscle cell lineage in chicken limb development and early gene activation in mouse muscle satellite cells after injury. Returning to the east coast, she took a position at Yale University Medical School within the Keck Biotechnology Resource Lab and was the founding director of the Keck Microarray Resource. Following her experience at Yale she was a Senior Study Director and Product Manager, DNA Sequencing in a contract research company overseeing SNP discovery, resequencing and targeted genotyping projects. Janet joined the faculty at University of Connecticut Health Center in 2009 as Director of the Translational Genomics Core and established Illumina GAIIx and HiSeq 2000 high throughput next gen sequencing services. Most recently Janet transitioned into molecular diagnostics at Yale. Initially she was involved in validating and transferring a lab developed CML test to an international standard. Subsequently she was a clinical analyst in the tumor profiling lab and was responsible for curating somatic variants identified by next gen sequencing and preparing clinical reports.