 | Christine Jacobs-Wagner |
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, who has been named as the Maxine F. Singer '57 Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, is studying how cells control their own development -- particularly, the protein dynamics of living cells and the ways cells create and maintain a defined shape.
The Singer chair, which honors a former Yale trustee, is a term appointment. Jacobs-Wagner will hold the post through June 30, 2007.
The researchers in Jacobs-Wagner's laboratory are studying the regulatory mechanisms involved in cell differentiation, asymmetric cell division, and the coupling between morphogenesis and the cell cycle in the dimorphic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. A second major area of study for the laboratory is the cytoskeleton that supports the shape of this organism. The researchers' work may lead to a better understanding of both normal and abnormal cell development in higher organisms, including humans.
A native of Belgium, Jacobs-Wagner earned master's and doctoral degrees in biochemistry at the University of Liège in 1991 and 1996, respectively. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University 1996-2000, and joined the Yale faculty in 2001. Here, in addition to her research, she has taught courses in microbiology and mentored numerous graduate and undergraduate students., as well as postdoctoral fellows.
Jacobs-Wagner has received numerous awards during her career. She was the Grand Prize Winner of the Young Scientist Award (formerly known as the Amersham Pharmacia Biotech and Science Prize for Young Scientists) in 1997 and the following year received The Young Outstanding Persons Award in Medical Innovations from the Young Economic Chamber of Belgium. Her other honors include the Marcel-Flokin Prize, the A. Wetrems Prize in Natural Sciences and the E. Van Beneden Prize. Last year, she received a Pew Scholarship Award in the Biomedical Sciences.
She has also been awarded fellowships by the Belgian American Educational Foundation, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique and the European Molecular Biology Organization.
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