Rate My Professor Grant Jensen

Jensen's research in biology employs cryo-electron tomography to elucidate microbial cell biology, focusing on cellular nanomachines, cell division, motility, secretion, cytoskeleton, subcellular compartmentalization, and bacterial warfare across nearly 100 microbial species, as well as HIV structural biology at all stages. His highly influential publications include "Type VI secretion requires a dynamic contractile phage tail-like structure" (Nature, 2012), "Magnetosomes are cell membrane invaginations organized by the actin-like protein MamK" (Science, 2006), "The structure of FtsZ filaments in vivo suggests a force-generating role in cell division" (EMBO Journal, 2007), "Architecture of the type IVa pilus machine" (Biophysical Journal, 2016), "Universal architecture of bacterial chemoreceptor arrays" (PNAS, 2009), and "Molecular organization of Gram-negative peptidoglycan" (PNAS, 2008), amassing over 22,000 citations. Major awards encompass Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2024), Izatt-Christensen Faculty Excellence in Research Award (2023), Searle Scholar (2004-2006), Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2002), and Microscopy Society of America Presidential Scholar (1998). He has chaired the Division of Cell and Structural Biology of the American Society of Microbiology (2010), served on scientific advisory boards for cryo-EM centers and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, and contributed to NIH review panels and Faculty of 1000 in Structural Biology.