Jodi Schottenfeld-Roames is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University. She earned her Ph.D. in 2008 from the same department, specializing in cell and developmental biology. Her research experience spans a variety of developmental model systems, including Danio rerio (zebrafish) and Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworms), but she transitioned to using Drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies) as her primary model organism while a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her current research aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying branching morphogenesis and tubulogenesis within the fruit fly's respiratory system.

Dr. Schottenfeld-Roames has maintained undergraduate research programs at both Swarthmore College (2014-2017) and Princeton University (2017-present). She currently teaches three courses at Princeton University: an upper-level original research course for junior Molecular biology majors investigating genes required for Drosophila trachea morphogenesis; a non-majors introductory molecular biology lecture and lab course; and a six-week life sciences research experience for Princeton’s Freshman Scholars Institute (FSI) and Transfer Scholars Initiative (TSI) summer bridge programs.