In 2002, she accepted a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley as a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, joining her husband Jamie Cate who was a professor there.
She also gained access to the synchrotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for her experiments with high powered x-ray diffraction.

In 2009, she took a leave of absence from Berkeley to work at Genentech to lead discovery research.
She left Genentech after two months and returned back to Berkeley and cancelled all her obligations to study CRISPR.

She is currently located at University of California, Berkeley where she directs the Innovative Genomics Institute, a joint UC Berkeley-University of California, San Francisco center, holds Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Professorship in Biomedicine and Health, and is the chair of the Chancellor's Advisor Committee on Biology.
Her lab now focuses on obtaining a mechanistic understanding of biological processes involving RNA.
This work is divided into three major areas, the CRISPR system, RNA interference, and translational control via MicroRNAs.
In 2002, she accepted a faculty position at the University of California, Berkeley as a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, joining her husband Jamie Cate who was a professor there. She also gained access to the synchrotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for her experiments with high powered x-ray diffraction. 
In 2009, she took a leave of absence from Berkeley to work at Genentech to lead discovery research. She left Genentech after two months and returned back to Berkeley and cancelled all her obligations to study CRISPR.
She is currently located at University of California, Berkeley where she directs the Innovative Genomics Institute, a joint UC Berkeley-University of California, San Francisco center, holds Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Professorship in Biomedicine and Health, and is the chair of the Chancellor's Advisor Committee on Biology. Her lab now focuses on obtaining a mechanistic understanding of biological processes involving RNA. This work is divided into three major areas, the CRISPR system, RNA interference, and translational control via MicroRNAs.
Jennifer Doudna