Jane grew up moving between San Francisco, California, and various towns and cities on the east coast of the United States. As an undergraduate at Smith College in Massachusetts, she had the opportunity to contribute to paleontology research with Prof. Sara Pruss, and she completed a senior honors thesis on mosquito molecular biology with Prof. Steven Williams. She moved to Baltimore, Maryland, for her ScM at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her masters project in Prof. Monica Mugnier’s lab, where she studied epigenetics in the kinetoplastid parasite, T. cruzi. This strange parasite fascinated her, and in 2026, Jane moved to Glasgow to begin her PhD with the Burley Lab in Base J function and localization in kinetplastid parasites.