SPEAKER BIO
Dr. Diggle graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Salford before to undertaking a Ph.D. in molecular microbiology studying quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa at the University of Nottingham. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Nottingham on both EU and BBSRC funded grants, before obtaining a Royal Society University Fellowship. Diggle was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and in 2017 moved to the School of Biological Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology as an Associate Professor.
Dr. Diggle currently serves as a Senior Editor on the editorial board of Microbiology. He has previously served on the editorial boards of FEMS Microbiology Letters, BMC Microbiology, Microbiology Open and Royal Society Open Science. Diggle was an elected member of the Microbiology Society Council (2012-2016) and served on their conference and policy committees. Most recently he was selected to be an American Society for Microbiology Distinguished Lecturer in 2021.