Dr Jasmine Plummer

Founding Director of the Center for Spatial Omics at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Dr. Jasmine Plummer, PhD is the founding Director of the Center for Spatial Omics at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She is a member of their Comprehensive Cancer Center and an Associate Professor cross-appointed in the Department of Cellular & Molecular Biology and Developmental Neurobiology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She received her PhD at the University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital where Dr Plummer used genome wide screens to identify novel genes that regulate nervous system development. Dr. Plummer was director of the Applied Genomics, Computation, and Translational Core at Cedars Sinai which focused on generating genomic data for a variety of technologies from single-cell and spatial assays to sequencing. Currently, Dr. Plummer’s lab uses a multi-omic approach through genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and spatial data to functionally interrogate the genetic risk of disease including cancer. From this current work, Dr. Plummer tries to understand how genetics drive cancer pathogenicity.