Lab Members

Assistant Professor

Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Jake received his B.S. at Grove City College and performed research on two-component signalling in Bacillus anthracis with Devin Stauff, PhD.

Jake earned his PhD with Eric Skaar, MPH PhD at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, studying heme synthesis and acquisition in Staphylococcus aureus.

Seeking to enter the world of antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative pathogens, Jake performed postdoctoral research with David Weiss, PhD at Emory University School of Medicine. There, he studied the mechanistic basis for antibiotic heteroresistance to different antibiotics in Enterobacter cloacae complex clinical isolates. 

Jake started his lab at UNC in June 2025