Malcolm F. White - Deputy Chair

Malcolm White graduated with a degree in Biochemistry from the University of Aberdeen in 1986. His PhD at the University of Edinburgh was focused on structure-function studies of glycolytic enzymes. This was followed by a post-doc with Jack Kirsch at UC Berkeley, working on the plant enzyme ACC synthase from the ethylene biosynthesis pathway. After two years in sunny California he returned to the UK and a post-doc with David Lilley in Dundee. This marked a switch into the DNA recombination field, investigating Holliday junction resolving enzymes from yeast. He was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1996 to establish his own laboratory and subsequently moved to the University of St Andrews, where he was promoted to Professor of Biochemistry in 2004. There, his work has involved the unravelling of DNA recombination and repair pathways and proteins from Archaea. His interests include DNA helicase and nuclease structure and function, archaeal chromatin, transcription and molecular evolution.