Jennifer Boddicker, Ph.D.

Lecturer, College of Medicine

Jennifer Boddicker earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa studying the pathogenic mechanisms of Salmonella typhimurium using molecular genetics techniques. She went on to study biofilm formation of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Clegg. She then completed a CDC/APHL fellowship at the Iowa Public Health Laboratory, where she helped to design and validate a new rapid test for mumps virus during a mumps outbreak in the Midwest. Dr. Boddicker then accepted a lecturer position at the University of Iowa, where she taught a variety of microbiology classes to undergraduate, graduate, medical, nursing, and dental students. After relocating to beautiful Florida, Dr. Boddicker is now a lecturer in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, teaching Advanced Bacteriology, Infectious Diseases, and Gene and Immunotherapy to graduate and medical students in the College of Medicine. She is excited to begin a classroom research project with Gene and Immunotherapy students to design novel gene therapy strategies using AI tools.