Everett Peter Greenberg
Everett Peter Greenberg (born November 7, 1948 in Hempstead (Town, New York) ) is an American microbiologist at the University of Washington . He is known for coining the term “ quorum sensing ”, a form of chemical communication between bacteria, and for his contributions to its education.
Live and act
Greenberg earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington in 1970 , a master's degree in microbiology from the University of Iowa , Iowa City, and a Ph.D. in 1977. in microbiology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst . As a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, he became a faculty member at Cornell University and then a professor at the University of Iowa . Since 2005 he has been a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle .
Greenberg is concerned with the social behavior of bacteria. He and his working group were able to make a significant contribution to the elucidation of quorum sensing , with which bacteria, depending on their population density, express genes and form specialized communities such as biofilms and coordinate functions such as bioluminescence . Greenberg and co-workers were able to show that quorum sensing in Vibrio fischeri is mediated by a soluble signaling molecule. The chemical communication of bacteria also plays an important role in the development of chronic infections .
More recent work by Greenberg deals with the adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the living conditions in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis and with the differentiation of bacteria between “self” and “not-self”. Further work put quorum sensing in the context of evolution and ecology .
Awards (selection)
- 1989 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2002 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2004 member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 2015 Shaw Prize (together with Bonnie L. Bassler )
Web links
- TH Davis: Biography of EP Greenberg. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 101, 2004, p. 15830, doi: 10.1073 / pnas.0407738101 .
Individual evidence
- ^ WC Fuqua, SC Winans, EP Greenberg: Quorum sensing in bacteria: the LuxR-LuxI family of cell density-responsive transcriptional regulators. In: Journal of bacteriology. Volume 176, Number 2, January 1994, ISSN 0021-9193 , pp. 269-275, PMID 8288518 , PMC 205046 (free full text) (review).
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter G. (PDF; 931 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved April 9, 2018 .
- ^ E. Peter Greenberg. In: nasonline.org. Retrieved June 1, 2015 .
- ^ The Shaw Prize - Top prizes for astronomy, life science and mathematics. In: shawprize.org. June 1, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greenberg, Everett Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greenberg, E. Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American microbiologist at the University of Washington |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hempstead (Town) , New York , United States |