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Marvin Whitely, PhD |
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Marvin Whiteley is an Associate Professor in the Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at the University of Texas at Austin. Marvin received a B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin (1995), an M.S. from Texas State University (1997), and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (2001) where he trained with Pete Greenberg. He did postdoctoral work with Sharon Long at Stanford University before accepting a faculty position at the University of Oklahoma (2003). In 2006, he moved back to his alma mater UT-Austin and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2009.
Marvin has been active in ASM since graduate school and currently serves as President of the Texas Branch of ASM. He has received numerous awards including the OCAST Young Investigator Award and the ASM Merck Irving Sigal award for research excellence. He was selected as a Burroughs Wellcome Investigator in Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease in 2008 and a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences in 2009. Marvin is very interested in undergraduate teaching and recently received the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award from the UT-Austin College of Natural Sciences. He currently heads an NSF-funded program providing research opportunities for minority undergraduates. |
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http://web.biosci.utexas.edu/whiteley_lab/pages/home.html |
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