Melissa White

Miss Melissa White

Facility Manager (SAGE)

School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Science

College of Health


Research Associate - SA Genome Editing Facility.I have a keen interest in reproductive biology and genome editing technologies.

Date Institution name Country Title
2008 - 2012 The University of Adelaide Australia Bachelor of Health Science (Hons)

Year Citation
2025 Frank, M. S. B., Bennett, M. K., Ha, T. T., Moore, L., Arts, P., Byrne, A. B., . . . Scott, H. S. (2025). Atypical presentations of fetal polycystic kidney disease demonstrates the utility of a genomic autopsy for accurate post-mortem diagnoses. Human Genomics, 19(1, article no. 132), 1-13.
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2024 Bhattacharjee, R., Jolly, L. A., Corbett, M. A., Wee, I. C., Rao, S. R., Gardner, A. E., . . . Gecz, J. (2024). Compromised transcription-mRNA export factor THOC2 causes R-loop accumulation, DNA damage and adverse neurodevelopment. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1210-1-1210-5.
DOI Scopus12 WoS10 Europe PMC8
2023 Hassall, M. M., Javadiyan, S., Klebe, S., Awadalla, M. S., Sharma, S., Qassim, A., . . . Siggs, O. M. (2023). Phenotypic consequences of a nanophthalmos-associated TMEM98 variant in human and mouse. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 11017-1-11017-7.
DOI Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC2
2022 Byrne, A. B., Brouillard, P., Sutton, D. L., Kazenwadel, J., Montazaribarforoushi, S., Secker, G. A., . . . Harvey, N. L. (2022). Pathogenic variants in MDFIC cause recessive central conducting lymphatic anomaly with lymphedema. Science Translational Medicine, 14(634), eabm4869-1-eabm4869-15.
DOI Scopus38 WoS29 Europe PMC31
2022 Bunting, M. D., Pfitzner, C., Gierus, L., White, M., Piltz, S., & Thomas, P. Q. (2022). Generation of Gene Drive Mice for Invasive Pest Population Suppression.. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2495, 203-230.
DOI Scopus6 Europe PMC5
2022 Chin, E. W., Ma, Q., Ruan, H., Chin, C., Somasundaram, A., Zhang, C., . . . Wong, M. -L. (2022). The epigenetic reader PHF21B modulates murine social memory and synaptic plasticity-related genes.. JCI Insight, 7(14), 19 pages.
DOI Scopus5 WoS4 Europe PMC4
2020 Oishi, S., Zalucki, O., Vega, M. S., Harkins, D., Harvey, T. J., Kasherman, M., . . . Piper, M. (2020). Investigating cortical features of Sotos syndrome using mice heterozygous for Nsd1. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 19(4), 1-15.
DOI Scopus19 WoS17 Europe PMC21
2020 Pfitzner, C., White, M. A., Piltz, S. G., Scherer, M., Adikusuma, F., Hughes, J. N., & Thomas, P. Q. (2020). Progress Toward Zygotic and Germline Gene Drives in Mice.. CRISPR J, 3(5), 388-397.
DOI Scopus25 WoS22 Europe PMC28
2020 Pfitzner, C., Hughes, J., White, M., Scherer, M., Piltz, S., & Thomas, P. (2020). Development of zygotic and germline gene drives in mice.
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2018 Masedunskas, A., Appaduray, M. A., Lucas, C. A., Cagigas, M. L., Heydecker, M., Holliday, M., . . . Hardeman, E. C. (2018). Parallel assembly of actin and tropomyosin, but not myosin II, during de novo actin filament formation in live mice. Journal of Cell Science, 131(6), 212654-1-212654-8.
DOI Scopus15 WoS15 Europe PMC16
2018 Robertson, L., Pederick, D., Piltz, S., White, M., Nieto, A., Ahladas, M., . . . Thomas, P. Q. (2018). Expanding the RNA-Guided Endonuclease Toolkit for Mouse Genome Editing.. The CRISPR journal, 1(6), 431-439.
DOI WoS5 Europe PMC4
2017 Dawar, S., Lim, Y., Puccini, J., White, M., Thomas, P., Bouchier-Hayes, L., . . . Kumar, S. (2017). Caspase-2-mediated cell death is required for deleting aneuploid cells. Oncogene, 36(19), 2704-2714.
DOI Scopus55 WoS52 Europe PMC50
2017 McDowall, M. L., Gosnell, M., Anwer, A., White, M., Purdey, M., Abell, A. D., . . . Thompson, J. G. (2017). Hyperspectral microscopy can detect metabolic heterogeneity within bovine post-compaction embryos incubated under two oxygen concentrations (7% versus 20%). Human Reproduction, 32(10), 2016-2025.
DOI Scopus37 WoS34 Europe PMC22
2015 Mottershead, D., Sugimura, S., Al-Musawi, S., Li, J., Richani, D., White, M., . . . Gilchrist, R. (2015). Cumulin, an oocyte-secreted heterodimer of the transforming growth factor-β family, is a potent activator of granulosa cells and improves oocyte quality. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 290(39), 24007-24020.
DOI Scopus153 WoS132 Europe PMC114
2014 Sudiman, J., Sutton-McDowall, M., Ritter, L., White, M., Mottershead, D., Thompson, J., & Gilchrist, R. (2014). Bone morphogenetic protein 15 in the pro-mature complex form enhances Bovine oocyte developmental competence. PLoS One, 9(7), e103563-1-e103563-11.
DOI Scopus51 WoS49 Europe PMC38
2014 Li, J., Sugimura, S., Mueller, T., White, M., Martin, G., Ritter, L., . . . Mottershead, D. (2014). Modifications of human growth differentiation factor 9 to improve the generation of embryos from low competence oocytes. Molecular Endocrinology, 29(1), 40-52.
DOI Scopus21 WoS19 Europe PMC18

Year Citation
2020 Bhattacharjee, R., White, M., Thomas, P., Gecz, J., & Sharma, R. (2020). Investigating the Role of THOC2/TREX Nuclear mRNA Export in Neurodevelopmental Disorders. Poster session presented at the meeting of 14th Florey Postgraduate Research Conference, 2020. Adelaide.

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2019 - 2019 Member Transgenic and Assisted Reproduction Symposium Committee International Society for Transgenic Technologies Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2018 - ongoing Member International Society for Transgenic Technologies Australia

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