Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, January 30, 2026
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Ph.D.
Dennis Cunningham Professor, Professor of Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Shining Light on Bacterial Physiology and Host Defenses
The Norton Zinder Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Thappeta, Y., Cañas-Duarte, S.J., Wang, H. et al. “Glycogen phase-separation drives macromolecular rearrangement and asymmetric division in E. coli.” EMBO J 44, 7434–7476 (2025).
Williams, Shoshana C., et al. “Cross-Molecular Active Learning for the Discovery of Antimicrobial Polyacrylamides.” bioRxiv (2025): 2025-11.
McCausland, Joshua W., et al. “Bacterial and host enzymes modulate the pro-inflammatory response elicited by the peptidoglycan of Lyme disease agent Borrelia burgdorferi.” PLoS Pathogens 21.7 (2025): e1013324.
Fragasso, Alessio, et al. “Time-resolved phenotyping at subcellular resolution reveals shared principles and key trade-offs across antimicrobial peptide activities.” bioRxiv (2025): 2025-04.
Glenn, Skye, et al. “Coupling of cell growth modulation to asymmetric division and cell cycle regulation in Caulobacter crescentus.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121.41 (2024): e2406397121.
