Jacob Walsh

Dr. Jacob Walsh is an analytical and natural product chemist whose research interest is in microbial chemical ecology, focusing on competitive environments and pathogenesis. His research uses mass spectrometry and metabolomics to identify biologically relevant compounds, understand these secondary metabolites’ roles in the environment, and identify virulence factors. Dr. Walsh acquired his PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Western Ontario, where he worked with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, where he studied mycotoxins and fungal agriculture diseases. He then pursued post-doctoral studies at McMaster University, where he studied preclinical antibiotic discovery and antibiotic resistance. His post-doctoral work was on applying mass spectrometry to mine extract libraries of actinomycete bacteria for potentially novel antibiotics.