David Whitworth
BA, PhD, SFHEA
Professor
Contact Details
- Email: dew@aber.ac.uk
- ORCID: 0000-0002-0302-7722
- Office: The room previously known as S22, Cledwyn Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621828
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- BR12210 - Molecular Laboratory Skills
- BR22920 - Practical Skills for Biochemists
- BR12010 - Metabolism
Coordinator
- BR22920 - Practical Skills for Biochemists
- BR12210 - Molecular Laboratory Skills
- BR12010 - Metabolism
Lecturer
- BR23920 - Behavioural Ecology
- BR15320 - Biochemistry and the Cellular Basis of Life
- BR14310 - Evolution and the Diversity of Life
- BR36020 - Molecular Biology of Development
- BR26620 - Proteins and Enzymes
Tutor
Grader
Research
My research focuses on the myxobacterial predator Myxococcus xanthus and how it preys upon other microbes. We are studying natural myxobacterial isolates using a variety of genomic, proteomic and phenotypic techniques to identify the genes conferring antimicrobial activity. Particular topics of interest include the predatory vesicles shed by myxobacteria, and myxobacterial signalling pathways and how they alter behaviour in response to a changing environment.