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Thomas S. Whittam
John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Bacterial Evolution
Dr. Whittam received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1981 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester. In 1990, Dr. Whittam received a Research Career Development Award from NIH. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Dr. Whittam was a faculty member in the Biology Department and the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics at Penn State from 1985-2000. He joined the faculty at the National Food Safety & Toxicology Center at Michigan State University in 2001 where he holds academic appointments in the Department of Food Sciences & Human Nutrition and the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
Education
- B.A. 1976, Franklin & Marshall College
- Ph.D. 1981, University of Arizona
- Post-doc, 1981-1983, University of Rochester
Recent Publications
- Bergholz, T. M. and T. S. Whittam. 2007. Variation in acid resistance among enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli in a simulated gastric environment. Journal of Applied Microbiology 102:352-362. [PubMed link]
- Lacher, D. W., H. Steinsland, M. S. Donnenberg, and T. S. Whittam. 2007. Molecular evolution of typical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli: Clonal analysis by multilocus sequence typing and virulence gene allelic profiling. Journal of Bacteriology 189:342-350. [PubMed link]
- Alland, D., D. W. Lacher, M. H. Hazbon, A. S. Motiwala, W. Qi, R. D. Fleischmann, and T. S. Whittam. 2007. The role of large sequence polymorphisms in generating genomic diversity in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and their utility in phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 45:39-46.[PubMed link]
- Zhang, W., W. Qi., T. J. Albert., A. S. Motiwala., D. Alland., E. K. Hyytia-Trees, E. M. Ribot, P. I. Fields, T. S. Whittam, and B. Swaminathan. 2006. Probing genomic diversity and evolution of Escherichia coli O157 by single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Genomic Research 16:757-67. [PubMed link]
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