In the Whiteley Lab, we are interested in the social lives of bacteria. We use new technologies combined with classical genetic techniques to address questions about microbial physiology, ecology, virulence, and evolution. We primarily study chronic infections involving the pathogens Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and Mycobacterium abscessus.  Our lab is located at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and we are affiliated with the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Tech, as well as the Emory-Children’s Cystic Fibrosis Center.

Lab News

We are currently working remotely, like so many others at present. We are fortunate, that we can make good use of this time to work on computational analyses, writing papers and grant proposals. generating figures, attending webinars, video conferencing and updating protocols. So, we are all keeping busy as we wait to get back to the bench.

Recent Publications:
The Role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Glutathione Biosynthesis in Lung and Soft Tissue Infection KL Michie, JL Dees, D Fleming, DA Moustafa, JB Goldberg, KP Rumbaugh, M Whiteley Infection and Immunity 2020

Quantitative Framework for Model Evaluation in microbiology Research Using Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Cystic Fibrosis Infection as a Test Case DM Cornforth, FL Diggle, JA Melvin, JM Bomberger, M Whiteley mBio 11 (1) 2020

The social life of microbes in chronic infection  CB Ibberson, M Whiteley Current Opinion in Microbiology 53, 44-50