Speakers

Dr. Jacobs received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and did post-doctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, before taking a faculty position at Arizona State University. Dr. Jacobs has been a member of the NIH Virology Study Section and has served on numerous biodefense-related study sections. He has been an active collaborator with Russian scientists at VECTOR, home of the Russian smallpox repository. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a former Distinguished Lecturer for the American Society of Microbiology. Dr. Jacobs serves as Chair of the Arizona State University Institutional Biosafety Committee and is former Director of the School of Life Sciences.

Dr. Jacobs’ teaching interests include HIV prevention education to lay audiences. In this regard, Dr. Jacobs teaches a highly regarded interdisciplinary HIV class at ASU and spends several weeks each year in Africa teaching HIV prevention. Dr. Jacobs has served on the Board of Directors of two non-profit organizations dealing with public health, Aunt Rita’s Foundation and HEAL, International.