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.
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Lab News
We are all back in and working in shifts. The Whiteley Lab has grown and we welcome Aditya Natu, Ana Ramos and Sean Capps to the team. We are delighted that Kelly Michie successfully defended her PhD thesis and started her new position with the Mayo Foundation - Congrats Kelly. Also Angelica Rodriguez recently has moved on to pursue a career in data management - Good Luck! They will both be missed.
Congratulations too, to Britt and Sergio on the arrival of Rosie (Rosalind- no prizes for working out her namesake!) on February 12th - she won't be joining the lab just yet, as she has more important things to do! We are excited to announce that The Whiteley Lab has also been successful in receiving funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in a Joint venture with our collaborators at Emory University (Goldberg lab) and the University of Pittsburgh (Bomberger lab). Recent Publications:
Micron Scale Spatial Measurement of the O2 Gradient Surrounding a Bacterial Biofilm in Real Time AD Klementiev, Z Jin, M Whiteley Mbio 11 (5) Bacterial Quorum Sensing During Infection S Azimi, AD Klementiev, M Whiteley, SP Diggle. Annual Review of Microbiology 74, 201-219 The histone-like protein AlgP regulon is distinct in mucoid and nonmucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa and does not include alginate biosynthesis genes AR Cross, EE Csatary, V Raghuram, FL Diggle, M Whiteley, WM Wuest, Joanna B. Goldberg. Microbiology, micro000923 Spatial mapping of polymicrobial communities reveals a precise biogeography associated with human dental caries D Kim, JP Barraza, RA Arthur, A Hara, K Lewis, Y Liu, EL Scisci, Evlambia Hajishengallis, Marvin Whiteley, Hyun Koo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (22), 12375-12386 |
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