J.M. Shookhoff is a former biochemist who earned her Masters at Georgetown University in 2007 and interned at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the Laboratory of Developmental Genomics where she sequenced the luteinizing hormone receptor in a patient with Leydig Cell Hypoplasia.
She then spent the next several years at Georgetown focusing on elucidating the role of microRNAs in the developing spinal cord and motor neurons.
After an extended hiatus and welcoming three additional daughters to the world (making the total four thus far) she completed the online Genealogical Research Certificate Program at Boston University in 2019 and has continued to study online extensively in the areas of genetic, forensic, and investigative genealogy.
She is excited to combine her deep desire to help others, her passion for true crime, and her intense interest in genetics into a career and hopes to spend many years solving mysteries and finding answers.