Dr Robert B White

Post Doctoral Research Fellow

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Background

  • 2011-current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Parkinson’s Centre, Edith Cowan University
  • 2008-2010: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust-Funded Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London
  • 2007-2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign funded Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London

Professional Memberships

  • Australian Society for Medical Research

Awards and Recognition

Other

  • Western Australian Department of Health New Investigator award, Combined Biological Sciences Meeting, Perth, WA, 2006.
  • The Brain Awareness Week Science Communication Prize. Symposium of Western Australian Neuroscience, Perth, WA, 2006.
  • The Australia New Zealand Society for Cell and Developmental Biology (ANZSCDB) Travel Grant Award, 2006.
  • The Human Genetics Society of Western Australia Student Prize. Combined Biological Sciences Meeting, Perth, WA, 2005.
  • The Keith Dixon Prize for Developmental Biology, ComBio ANZSCDB Prize, 2004.
  • Edith Cowan University Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 2004-2007.
  • Best Oral Presentation, Australia and New Zealand Society for Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry conference. Hobart, Tas, 2003.
  • Postgraduate Student Support Funding, Centre for Ecosystem Management (ECU). 2003.
  • Diaz Prize for Chemistry (ECU), 2002.

Research Areas and Interests

  • Transcriptional signalling
  • Stem cell fate choice
  • Regenerative medicine
  • Pax transcription factor function
  • Muscle stem cells
  • Stem cells in CNS repair

Staff Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science Honours, Edith Cowan University .
  • PhD (Doctoral Degree), Edith Cowan University, 2008 .

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Journal Articles

  • White, R., (2011), Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck...still behaves like a bone marrow stromal cell. Translational Research: the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine, 157(2), 53-55, DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2010.12.001.
  • Gnocchi, V., Scharner, J., Huang, Z., Brady, K., Lee, J., White, R., Morgan , J., Sun, Y., Ellis, J., Zammit, P., (2011), Uncoordinated Transcription and Compromised Muscle Function in the Lmna-Null Mouse Model of Emery-Dreifuss Muscular Dystrophy. PLoS One, 6(2), e16651 , DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016651.
  • White, R., Bierinx, A., Gnocchi, V., Zammit, P., (2010), Dynamics of muscle fibre growth during postnatal mouse development. BMC Developmental Biology, 10(2010), article number 21, London, UK, DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-10-21.
  • Collins, CA., Gnocchi, VF., White, R., Boldrin, L., Perez-Ruiz, A., Relaix, F., Morgan, JE., Zammit, PS., (2009), Integrated Functions of Pax3 and Pax7 in the Regulation of Proliferation, Cell Size and Myogenic Differentiation. PLoS ONE, 4(2), e4475, United States, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004475.
  • Gnocchi, VF., White, R., Ono, Y., Ellis, JA., Zammit, PS., (2009), Further Characterisation of the Molecular Signature of Quiescent and Activated Mouse Muscle Satellite Cells. PLoS ONE, 4(4), e5205, United States, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005205.