JONATHAN MICHAEL JACOBS, PH.D.
JONATHAN MICHAEL JACOBS, PH.D.
plant pathologist, microbiologist
PEOPLE GET SICK AND SO DO PLANTS!
Plant diseases have important economic consequences for agriculture and ultimately humanity’s food sources. I am a plant pathologist interested the basic and applied biology of plant-associated microbes that cause diseases on plants.
Plant pathologists investigate plant disease problems faced by growers to help mitigate disease-associated losses. My long-term goal is to improve global food security through research, education and mentorship by developing and communicating useful scientific knowledge of important plant disease problems in agriculture.
BACTERIAL WILT OF TOMATO
Time lapse
BACTERIA IN THEIR NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
GFP-expressing bacteria in barley xylem
USDA NIFA FELLOW
current
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO, USA
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Funding sources: USDA NIFA (2017-2019)
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR
2016-2017
Université Catholique de Louvain
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Funding sources:
US Fulbright Commission to Belgium
NSF POSTDOCÂ FELLOW
2013-2016
Institut de recherche pour le développement
Montpellier, France
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Funding sources: NSF (2013-2015), ANR (2015-2016)
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
Comparative genomics of a cannabis pathogen reveals insight into the evolution of pathogenicity in Xanthomonas
2015
Frontiers
Ralstonia solanacearum requires PopS, an ancient AvrE-family effector, for virulence and To overcome salicylic acid-mediated defenses during tomato pathogenesis
2013
mBio
The in planta transcriptome of Ralstonia solanacearum: conserved physiological and virulence strategies during bacterial wilt of tomato
2012
mBio
Here are some publications from my work on how pathogens cause diseases of plants!