Jeffrey Withey
Office Phone
313-577-1316
Biography
Jeffrey H. Withey, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology. Dr. Withey earned his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Michigan in 2000 in the lab of Dr. David Friedman. His postdoctoral studies in bacterial pathogenesis were in the laboratory of Dr. Victor DiRita at the University of Michigan. Dr. Withey joined our faculty in 2006.
Dr. Withey is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, conducting research with collaborators at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata, India in 2014-2015 and again in 2023-2024. In 2020 he was named a Fulbright Scholar Alumni Ambassador, serving a two year term to advocate for Fulbright programs around the US. He is currently an Academic Editor for PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and Associate Editor for Frontiers in Microbiology and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Microbiological Methods, and Current Clinical Microbiology Reports.
Education/Training
Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan
B.A. in Biology from Johns Hopkins University