Jenna Petronglo

Jenna attended Fordham University where she majored in Biological Sciences and completed a research thesis on the ecology of the black-legged tick, the major vector of Lyme disease. After graduating in 2014, she worked as a research technician at The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and assisted in projects studying Huntington's disease. She joined the IGP in 2017 and the Cassat lab in 2018. Her project focused on how inflammation generated during the innate immune response to S. aureus osteomyelitis affects osteoclast differentiation and function. Jenna successfully defended her dissertation in 2023 and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Erica Korb at UPenn.