Research
Current Research
Publications
- Jacob, J. M., Thompson, A., Mijares, A., Pawlowski, A., Nims, A., Philips, E., & Larkin, P. (2025). Identification of Alpha- and Gammaherpesvirus in Stranded Hawaiian Cetaceans. In Review.
- Jacob, J. M., Curtiss III, Roy. (2021). Characterization of Brucella abortus S19 as a Challenge Strain for Use in a Mouse Model of Brucellosis. Microbes and Infection, 23(4-5), 104809.
- Sayler, K. A., Subramaniam, K., Jacob, J. M., Loeb J. C., Craft, W. F., Farina, L. L., Stacy, N. I., Moussatche, N., Cook, L., Lednicky, J. A., Wisely, S. M., & Waltzek, T. B. (2019). Characterization of Mule Deerpox Virus in Florida White-Tailed Deer Fawns Expands the Known Host and Geographic Range of this Emerging Pathogen. Archives of Virology, 164(1), 51-61.
- Jacob, J. M., Subramaniam, K., Tu, S. L., Nielsen, O., Tuomi, P. A., Upton, C., & Waltzek, T. B. (2018). Complete Genome Sequence of a Novel Sea Otterpox Virus. Virus Genes, 54(6), 756-767.
- Davison, A. J., Nielsen, O., Subramaniam, K., Jacob, J. M., Romero, C. H., Burek-Huntington, K. A., & Waltzek, T. B. (2017). Genome Sequence of an Alphaherpesvirus from a Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas). Genome Announcements, 5(42), e01100-17.
- Davison, A. J., Subramaniam, K., Kerr, K., Jacob, J. M., Landrau- Giovanetti, N., Walsh, M. T., Wells, R. S., & Waltzek, T. B. (2017). Genome Sequence of a Gammaherpesvirus from a Common Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Genome Announcements, 5(31), e00777-17.
- Jacob, J. M., West, K. L., Levine, G., Sanchez, S., & Jensen, B. A. (2016). Initial Characterization of Novel Beaked Whale Morbillivirus in Hawaiian Cetaceans. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 117, 215-227.
- West, K. L., Levine, G., Jacob, J., Jensen, B., Sanchez, S., Colegrove, K., & Rotstein, D. (2015). Co-infection and Vertical Transmission of Brucella and Morbillivirus in a Neonatal Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in Hawaiʻi, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 51(1), 227-232.
Jessica Jacob, PhD 