Dr. Bradley White

Bradley White obtained his BSc in Botany at Nottingham University in 1967. He emigrated to Canada and then obtained his PhD at McMaster University working
on the molecular biology of extremely halophilic bacteria. He spent three years as a post doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr David Suzuki , where he studied transfer RNAs during the development of Drosophila. In 1973 he joined the Biology Dept of Queen’s University and continued his research on the transfer RNAs and the control of egg yolk synthesis in insects. In 1979 he spent a sabbatical in the Biochemistry Dept at Imperial College and learned DNA cloning technology. During this period he constructed a number of genomic libraries for a variety of insect and fish species.

In 190 he returned to McMaster University as Chair of Biology. He served on the Board of the Royal Botanical Gardens and led a large interdisciplinary research initiative on the restoration of Hamilton Harbour with Dr. Mark Sproule-Jones. In 1996 he spent a sabbatical at the Durrell Institute of Conservation Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. In 1997 he moved the Wildlife DNA Forensic Laboratory to Trent University where he was awarded the McLean Fellowship. In 2001 he was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Conservation Genetics and Biodiversity and formed the Natural resources DNA Profiling and Forensic Centre as a partnership between Trent and OMNR. He has published over 170 papers and trained over 30 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows during his research career.