Rate My Professor Zandra Jenkins

Returning to New Zealand in 2003, Jenkins joined Professor Stephen Robertson's Clinical Genetics Group at the University of Otago as a Research Fellow. Her research focuses on human genetics of skeletal development and congenital malformation, particularly disorders involving Filamin family gene mutations, exploring their cellular consequences and mechanisms to advance understanding of skeletogenesis. She has co-authored influential publications including "Germline mutations in WTX cause a sclerosing skeletal dysplasia but do not predispose to tumorigenesis" (Nature Genetics, 2009), "Mutations in genes encoding the cadherin receptor-ligand pair DCHS1 and FAT4 disrupt cerebral cortical development" (Nature Genetics, 2013), "RefilinB (FAM101B) targets FilaminA to organize perinuclear actin networks and regulates nuclear shape" (PNAS, 2011), "Clustered de novo start-loss variants in GLUL result in a neurodevelopmental disorder" (American Journal of Human Genetics, 2024), and studies on Menke-Hennekam syndrome subtypes (2024). With over 1,300 citations, her work impacts genetic research on skeletal dysplasias. She supervises PhD students in genetics.