Jean Mollett
Associate Professor
Molecular and Cell Biology
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa
Biography
Jean Mollett is currently working as Associate Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at University of Witwatersrand. In 2013, She changed track to building capacity in the field of research involving genetic divergence and hybridization in bird and plant species to inform conservation in southern Africa. Her long term goal is to set up methodologies and techniques to strengthen research and research capacity into the genetics of speciation and into the role of anthropogenic driven changes to the environment, such as climate and land-use change, which can alter bird, plant and insect distributions, their breeding success and survival which has implications in an ecological context and links into the field work and studies of bird movement of her colleague, Prof Craig Symes, in Animal, Plants and Environmental Sciences (APES), Wits University and with the ecology and genetics expertise of Dr Kelsey Glennon also in APES.
Research Interest
Her area of expertise are Genetics and Developmental Biology.
