Würzburg Life Science Seminar: Malcolm F. White

Prof Malcolm F. White - “Cyclic nucleotide signalling in antiviral defence”

Malcolm White is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of St Andrews. He has led a group there for 24 years, following periods of postdoctoral research in Scotland and California. He studies antiviral defence systems in microbes, discovering new enzymes and pathways that provide antiviral immunity by detecting and destroying viral invaders. His group has a particular interest in defence systems that use cyclic nucleotide signals, such as type III CRISPR and CBASS, as well as viral strategies to subvert this signalling. Malcolm is funded by the European Research Council and BBSRC. He is an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.