News
September 2014
TACC Podcast Discusses the Whiteley Lab Using Supercomputers to Learn More about Mouth Bacteria and Its Diet
July 2014
Dr. Whiteley Elected as a 2014 AAM Academy Fellow
May 2014
The Scientist Magazine Features Research from the Whiteley Lab
April 2014
This Week In Microbiology Podcast featuring the Whiteley Lab
February 2014
You Are Your Microbiome, Dr. Marvin Whiteley.
December 2013
NPR Covers Whiteley Lab Research on Bacteria
June 2013
Understanding Why Chronic Wounds Don’t Heal, Dr. Marvin Whiteley.
September 2011
Peter Jorth wins Golden Microbe Award for graduate research from the Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at UT Austin.
August 2011
Aishwarya Korgaonkar wins ASM Poster Award for presentation at the 2011 Madison Molecular Genetics of Bacteria and Phages Meeting in Madison, WI.
April 2011
Greg Palmer awarded University of Texas at Austin Continuing Bruton Fellowship for research on Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
April 2011
Holly Huse awarded University of Texas at Austin Graduate School Continuing Fellowship for research on Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
April 2011
Peter Jorth awarded Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Natural Sciences Council at UT Austin.
February 2011
Aimee Wessel and Peter Jorth awarded Ruth L. Kirschstein pre-doctoral fellowships from the NIH for work on Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans.
November 2010
Holly Huse, Aishwarya Korgaonkar, and Aimee Wessel win awards for presentations at the ASM Texas Annual Branch Meeting in San Marcos, TX.
October 2010
A recent review by Holly Huse and Marvin Whiteley on the multifunctional characteristics of 4-quinolones, "microbial smartphones", produced by
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is discussed on Science Daily. Article.
October 2010
Whiteley lab research on evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during chronic infection discussed in US News and World Report. Article.
November 2009
The ASM Texas Branch fall meeting will be held at the University of Texas at Tyler. Please click on the Announcement link to download the meeting announcement for further information. You can also visit the website.
September 2009
Aimee Wessel and the Whiteley Lab have worked on a collaboration with the Shear Lab trapping bacteria in microscopic protein boxes. Check out the video on the UT website!
August 2009
Megan Boulette, Holly Huse, Jeff Schertzer, and Aimee Wessel travel to Hannover Germany to present research at the Pseudomonas Meeting. Aimee Wessel wins a poster award for her research with microscopic bacterial traps.
June 2009
Stacie Brown, Peter Jorth, Aishwarya Korgaonkar, and Greg Palmer travel to Colorado to present research at the Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology.
March 2009
Matthew Ramsey wins NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship for his research on Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans.
March 2009
Peter Jorth is named an alternate for the National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship.
February 2009
Matthew Ramsey and Marvin Whiteley publish paper in PNAS and the article is noted in a Nature news story.
November 2008
Peter Jorth wins first runner-up Sam Kaplan poster award for a graduate student poster presentation at the Fall ASM Texas Branch Meeting held in Austin, Texas.