Larry Gallagher
Senior Scientist

Larry holds a BFA in Theater and Dance and a BA in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his PhD from the Department of Genetics at the University of Washington, where he studied a virulence interaction between P. aeruginosa and C. elegans. He was subsequently hired as a staff scientist for a regional “biodefense and emerging infectious disease” research consortium, developing an early version of Tn-seq and other tools for functional genomic analysis of ESCAPE pathogens. In 2021 he was hired by the Mougous Laboratory in the UW Department of Microbiology, where he developed 3D-seq methodology to study protein-DNA interaction and performed the first ever genetic manipulations of Patescibacteria, a phylum of enigmatic epibionts that parasitize other bacteria. Larry is excited to join the Meeske Lab and apply genetic methods and other techniques to study bacterial defense and counter-defense.