Christine Jacobs-Wagner

Christine Jacobs-Wagner is an American microbial molecular biologist. She is the Dennis Cunningham Professor of Biology and Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University. Jacobs-Wagner's research has shown that bacterial cells have a great deal of substructure, including analogs of microfilaments, and that proteins are directed by regulatory processes to locate to specific places within the bacterial cell. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 and has received a number of scientific awards.

Early life and education Christine Jacobs-Wagner grew up in Belgium in a town near Liege. but was undecided about a career through high school. She subsequently worked with Lucy Shapiro at Stanford Medical School on a fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization, where she studied Caulobacter, a bacterium with a flagellum on one end and a stalk on the other end, beginning her fascination with how bacterial cells can become asymmetrical. Eli Lilly Award American Society of Microbiology (2011) Pew Scholarship Award in the Biomedical Sciences PEW Charitable Trust (2003) Grand Prize Winner of the Young Scientist Award GE & Science (1997)

Selected works MT Cabeen, C Jacobs-Wagner 2005 “Bacterial Cell Shape” Nature Reviews Microbiology 3 (8):601-610. O. Sliusarenko, J Heinritz, T Emonet, and C Jacobs-Wagner 2011 “High-throughput, suppixel precision analysis of bacterial morphogenesis and spatio-temporal dynamics.” Molecular Microbiology 80 (3):612-627. N Ausmees, JR Kuhn, and C Jacobs-Wagner (2003) “The bacterial cytoskeleton: an intermediate filament-like function in cell shape“ Cell 115 (6): 705-713. PM Llopis, AF Jackson, O Sliusarenko, I Surovtsev, J Heinritz, T Emonet...C Jacobs-Wagner (2010) “Spatial organization of the flow of genetic information in bacteria“ Nature 466 (7302):77-81. G Laloux and C Jacobs-Wagner (2014) “How do bacteria localize proteins to the cell pole? J Cell Science 127: 11-19. doi:10.1242/jcs.138328 M Cabeen and C Jacobs-Wagner (2010) “The bacterial cytoskeleton” Annu Rev Genetics 44: 365-382.