Thomas Jacobs

Year of Graduation: 2014

Major Professor: Wayne Parrott

Tell us about your background prior to starting graduate work at UGA.

I worked for the startup company Agrivida Inc. in UConn's incubator program. Primary activities were maize greenhouse maintenance and transformation. 

Current occupation and job responsibilities:

Associate Professor, Ghent University. I teach one course titled Plant Molecular Biology. I supervise a lab of ~12 researchers developing various tools for Plant Genome Editing.

What do you do in a typical work week in your current job?

Answer emails. Design and analyze experiments with my team and others in the department. Politely decline requests. Read and write. 

If you could go back in time and give your younger self advice about graduate school, what would it be?

Focus on the question.

What do you remember best/miss most about your time at UGA?

Drinking way too much coffee and visiting Terrapin.

Do you have anything you would like to share about your family, hobbies, or other interests?

While at UGA I organized a softball team with mostly international people. We called ourselves the "Standard Deviations" and played for a couple of years. Now I coach my son's team and play on a recreational team for the Ghent Knights.