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Kyle Allison

  • Department of Medicine
    Assistant Professor
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Overview

Kyle Allison (PhD) is a bioengineer and chemical engineer whose research has focused on understanding the behavior of bacteria in order to improve antibiotics. The Allison Lab tracks individual bacteria using microscopy approaches they developed. Dr. Allison has made foundational discoveries in the metabolite potentiation of antibiotics, the resuscitation of persistent bacteria, and the multicellularity of E. coli (the best-studied unicellular organism). Dr. Allison was named to the first 30 under 30 list in Science by Forbes Magazine and received the NIH Directors Early Independence Award to bypass traditional postdoctoral training. His research has been published in Nature, PNAS, Molecular Systems Biology, Nature Methods, Nature Chemical Biology, and other journals and he has been inducted into the Emory University School of Medicine Millipub Club, an honor reserved for authors of published articles that are cited 1000 times in the literature. Dr. Allison also holds a masters degree in literature and wrote his thesis on James Joyces novel Finnegans Wake.

Education

Degrees

  • PhD from Boston University
  • MA from Royal Holloway, University of London
  • BSE from University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Research

Publications

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