Christine Jacobs-wagner PhD

Jacobs-Wagner is director of the Microbial Sciences Institute at the Yale West Campus and is also a professor of microbial pathogenesis. The institute is dedicated to exploring the world of microbes and how they govern processes that control the functions of all living creatures, with the goal of gaining a better understanding of the microbial world and its impact on the environment and human health.

Jacobs-Wagner received her M.S. and Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Liège (Belgium). She performed graduate work at universities in Belgium, France, and Sweden. Prior to joining the Yale faculty in 2001, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. In addition to her academic appointment, Jacobs-Wagner is an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She has been director of the predoctoral genetics training program at Yale since 2011.