Dr. Christine Jacobs Wagner

Biography

Christine Jacobs-Wagner is the Dennis Cunningham Professor in the Department of Biology and the ChEM-H Institute at Stanford University. She received her PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1996, where she unraveled the molecular mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens sense and respond to antibiotic attacks, achieving resistance. After postdoctoral work at Stanford Medical School, she demonstrated how bacteria localize regulatory proteins to specific intracellular regions, uncovering new levels of bacterial regulation. In 2001, she started her lab at Yale University, where her group significantly contributed to the emerging field of bacterial cell biology, providing key molecular insights into the mechanisms involved in cell morphogenesis, polarization, and chromosome segregation. Jacobs-Wagner has received numerous awards, including the Pew Scholars award and the Eli Lilly award from the American Society for Microbiology. In 2008, she became an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and her lab moved to Stanford in 2019. Her current research focuses on understanding the spatiotemporal mechanisms of bacterial cell replication, using models like Caulobacter crescentus and Escherichia coli, and expanding interests to include Lyme disease and its causes.

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