Dr Elena Tucker is Team Leader of the Ovarian Development and Disease program within the Reproductive Development Laboratory at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (Australia). She is an expert in functional genomics, with a particular interest in elucidating the genetic basis of premature ovarian insufficiency. Dr Elena Tucker earned her B.Sc. at the University of Melbourne in 2006. She earned her Ph.D. in medical genomics at the same university's Murdoch Children's Research Institute in 2011 focusing on using new approaches to genomics to improve the diagnosis and management of patients with mitochondrial disease. She continued to work there as a research fellow, investigating the molecular basis of disorders of sex development.