Dr. Jacobs' Inaugural Article as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in the September 2, 2014 issue of PNAS describes the discovery that the efficient plasmid transformation (ept) phenotype of mc(^2)155 is caused by a loss-of-function mutation in a gene.
Read the Article: Noncanonical SMC protein in Mycobacterium smegmatisrestricts maintenance of Mycobacterium fortuitum plasmids
Read the Biological Profile of Dr. Jacobs as a new NAS member