Dr David Whitworth
PhD, FRSB, SFHEA

Reader
Contact Details
- Email: dew@aber.ac.uk
- Office: S22, Cledwyn Building
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 621828
- Twitter: @whitworth_dave
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Module Coordinator
- BR22920 - Practical Skills for Biochemists
- BR12010 - Metabolism
- BR12210 - Molecular Laboratory Skills
Coordinator
- BR12210 - Molecular Laboratory Skills
- BR22920 - Practical Skills for Biochemists
- BR12010 - Metabolism
Additional Lecturer
Grader
- BR36440 - Research Project
- BR36400 - Research Project
- BRM2860 - MBiol Research Project
- BRM2800 - MBiol Research Project
Lecturer
- BR22920 - Practical Skills for Biochemists
- BR26620 - Proteins and Enzymes
- BRM4800 - Field and Laboratory Techniques
- BR12010 - Metabolism
- BR12510 - Biological Thought and Discovery
- BR15320 - Biochemistry and the Cellular Basis of Life
Tutor
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. In particular, I am interested in the social and predatory myxobacteria, and how they use two-component signalling pathways to co-ordinate group behaviour.