Microbiology in Belgium
Jacqueline Barlow
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Jackie Barlow is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and has been at UC Davis since 2014. She did her PhD at Columbia University in the Department of Genetics and Development studying DNA repair in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and her postdoctoral work studying DNA repair in B lymphocytes at the National Institutes of Health in the Experimental Immunology Branch and the Laboratory of Genome Integrity. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of genome instability in B lymphocytes—how successful DNA repair shapes how antibodies are made and how mutagenic DNA repair drives B cell cancer initiation and evolution. She participated in the Microbiology in Europe’s Capital Study Abroad program in Summer 2022 with Dr. Mitch Singe, and is excited to return to the beautiful country of Belgium.
This program introduces you not only to microbiology as a discipline, but also to the historic laboratories that led to modern microbiology. MIC 102 is an introductory course covering the biology of bacteria, archaea, lower eukaryota and virus. There will be strong focus on the role of microbes in human disease—and our response to them—and on the role of microbes in biotechnology, agriculture and their environmental impacts. You will visit the BioPark in Charleroi and take a day trip to Bruges and Ghent. The program is set in Brussels, a city full of Art Deco taverns, towering Gothic cathedrals and quaint guild houses."