Weston Whitaker
- Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
University Park, PA 16802
- Email wrw5218@psu.edu
Areas of Expertise
- Gut microbiome
- Synthetic biology
- Microbial therapeutics
- Entrepreneurship
Websites
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University
- PhD, Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
- BS, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University
Publications
Controlled colonization of the human gut with a genetically engineered microbial therapeutic
Science, Whitaker, Weston, Zachary Russ, N, Elizabeth Stanley Shepherd, None, Lauren Popov, M, Louie, Alexander, Lam, Kathy, David Zong, M, Clare Gill, C, Jeanette Gehrig, L, Harneet Rishi, S, Jessica Tan, A, Buness, Areta, Godoy, Janeth, Banta, Domenique, Jaidka, Sonia, Wilson, Katheryne, Flood, Jake, Bukshpun, Polina, Yocum, Richard, David Cook, N, Warsi, Tariq, McLean, Lachy, Justin Sonnenburg, L, William DeLoache, C, 2025
Gut Microbiota-Produced Tryptamine Activates an Epithelial G-Protein-Coupled Receptor to Increase Colonic Secretion.
Cell Host and Microbe, Bhattarai, Y, Williams, B, Battaglioli, E, Whitaker, Weston, Till, L, Grover, M, Linden, D, Akiba, Y, Kandimalla, K, Zachos, N, Kaunitz, J, Sonnenburg, J, Fischbach, M, Farrugia, G, Kashyap, P, 2018
An exclusive metabolic niche enables strain engraftment in the gut microbiota.
Nature, Shepherd, E, DeLoache, W, Pruss, K, Whitaker, Weston, Sonnenburg, J, 2018
Tunable Expression Tools Enable Single-Cell Strain Distinction in the Gut Microbiome.
Cell, Whitaker, Weston, Shepherd, E, Sonnenburg, J, 2017
