Melissa White

Miss Melissa White

Facility Manager (SAGE)

School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences

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
2026 Wiszniak, S., Alankarage, D., Lohraseb, I., Marchant, C., Secker, G., Domingo, D., . . . Schwarz, Q. (2026). Neural crest cell-derived DKK1 and NEDD4 modulate Wnt signalling in the second heart field to orchestrate outflow tract development.. Nature Communications, 17(1), 17511-1751-17.
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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), 132-1-132-13.
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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.
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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.
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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 Scopus42 WoS35 Europe PMC34
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 Scopus7 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.
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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 Scopus28 WoS25 Europe PMC30
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.
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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 WoS6 Europe PMC5
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 Scopus56 WoS53 Europe PMC52
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 Scopus38 WoS34 Europe PMC25
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 Scopus154 WoS133 Europe PMC115
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 Scopus54 WoS51 Europe PMC39
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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