Jean Dubach, PhD, MS, Population Geneticist is a recognized researcher in the field of animal genetics. She currently heads a state-of-the-art wildlife genetics laboratory performing diverse genetic techniques, including chromosome analysis, DNA fingerprinting, PCR amplification, and PCR-based DNA sequencing/genotyping to study population genetics of various animal species, both captive and wild.

Dr. Dubach’s analysis of genetic patterns in research animals, particularly non-human primates, is providing a systematic approach to understanding genetic variability in numerous large animal species that are critical for drug development. Understanding the genotype diversity and genealogy of these species can provide insight into sources of idiosyncratic study observations and reduced variability for defined study parameters/endpoints, which in turn, may minimize animal usage. This approach accelerates the identification of representative biological markers that can serve as endpoints in preclinical studies and translate into clinical markers of toxicity and/or efficacy.

In her 19 years of experience with the Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo, Jean developed and headed the molecular genetics research and service program. She has worked with 136 different species, including both Old World and New World non-human primates. Dr. Dubach’s contributions to primatology include a revision of the systematic relationships of the genus Ateles (Spider Monkey); species identification within several captive genera of New World and Old World primates; paternity within groups of gorillas, chimpanzees, macaques, tamarins, and baboons; and pedigree reconstruction for the captive North American population of 500 Ring-tailed lemurs. Her professional accomplishments include evaluating genetics of other species, the discovery of a new species of Australian marsupial (Trichosurus cunninghami), publishing the first documented case of parthenogenesis in snakes, and reporting the phylogeographic subdivisions of lions throughout southern Africa.

Dr. Dubach received an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado in nursing, holds masters degrees in population biology (University of Colorado)and applied statistics (Northern Colorado University), and a doctorate in population genetics (with a minor in biochemistry) from New Mexico State University. She has authored numerous posters and abstracts and has published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, International Journal of Primatology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution and Virology Journal. In 2004 she received the Outstanding Service award from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and additionally she received the 2009 NSTA Distinguished Informal Science Educator Award.

Jean Dubach, PhD, MS, Population Geneticist is a recognized researcher in the field of animal genetics. She currently heads a state-of-the-art wildlife genetics laboratory performing diverse genetic techniques, including chromosome analysis, DNA fingerprinting, PCR amplification, and PCR-based DNA sequencing/genotyping to study population genetics of various animal species, both captive and wild.

Dr. Dubach’s analysis of genetic patterns in research animals, particularly non-human primates, is providing a systematic approach to understanding genetic variability in numerous large animal species that are critical for drug development. Understanding the genotype diversity and genealogy of these species can provide insight into sources of idiosyncratic study observations and reduced variability for defined study parameters/endpoints, which in turn, may minimize animal usage. This approach accelerates the identification of representative biological markers that can serve as endpoints in preclinical studies and translate into clinical markers of toxicity and/or efficacy.

In her 19 years of experience with the Chicago Zoological Society, Brookfield Zoo, Jean developed and headed the molecular genetics research and service program. She has worked with 136 different species, including both Old World and New World non-human primates. Dr. Dubach’s contributions to primatology include a revision of the systematic relationships of the genus Ateles (Spider Monkey); species identification within several captive genera of New World and Old World primates; paternity within groups of gorillas, chimpanzees, macaques, tamarins, and baboons; and pedigree reconstruction for the captive North American population of 500 Ring-tailed lemurs. Her professional accomplishments include evaluating genetics of other species, the discovery of a new species of Australian marsupial (Trichosurus cunninghami), publishing the first documented case of parthenogenesis in snakes, and reporting the phylogeographic subdivisions of lions throughout southern Africa.

Dr. Dubach received an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado in nursing, holds masters degrees in population biology (University of Colorado)and applied statistics (Northern Colorado University), and a doctorate in population genetics (with a minor in biochemistry) from New Mexico State University. She has authored numerous posters and abstracts and has published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, International Journal of Primatology, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution and Virology Journal. In 2004 she received the Outstanding Service award from the American Zoo and Aquarium Association and additionally she received the 2009 NSTA Distinguished Informal Science Educator Award.