Dr. White's recruitment is the result of a unique effort among seven BSD department chairs, Argonne National Laboratory and the Chicago Biomedical Consortium - all of whom pooled resources to build the support package. The seven partnering BSD Chairs are Drs. Conrad Gilliam (Human Genetics), Chung-I Wu (Ecology & Evolution), Steve Goldstein (Pediatrics and the Institute for Molecular Pediatrics Science), Skip Garcia (Medicine), Vinay Kumar (Pathology), Marsha Rosner (Ben May Institute for Cancer Research), and Neil Shubin (Organismal Biology & Anatomy).

The Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology (IGSB) will eventually house 9 to 10 core faculty members in genomics and computational biology at Chicago and several scientists at Argonne. The Institute will feature state-of-the-art core technologies at Chicago and Argonne including high-throughput RNAi and chemical genetic screening, advanced microarray technologies, tissue array/screening, high-content/high-resolution imaging, antibody production, and biosensor development. These technologies will in particular support efforts in drug discovery and development by defining the complex genetics underlying disease, isolating chemical compounds that affect specific proteins, and developing potential therapeutics to target disease pathways. The IGSB will move to its home in the Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery after its completion in early 2008.

Dr. White's laboratory uses a combination of genomics, computational, and genetic approaches to investigate networks of factors that control gene expression during development and evolution. A major challenge in the "genomic era" of biology is to assemble the thousands of genes and proteins encoded within each genome into comprehensive subsets that specify particular developmental events or physiological processes. Dr. White's lab is approaching this challenge using Drosophila as a model and in the human genome directly. The core of this effort is aimed at examining networks activated through the steroid hormones and their cognate nuclear receptor complexes.

Dr. White took 3 years to earn a joint B.S./M.S. degree in biology from Yale in 1993 followed by a Ph.D. in developmental biology at Stanford under the mentorship of Dr. David Hogness. After graduating in 1998, White undertook a postdoctoral fellowship in Dr. Ron Davis' laboratory and the Stanford Genome Technology Center, where he also worked closely with Dr. Patrick Brown, a Chicago alum and key pioneer in the development of microarray technology. In 2000 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Genetics at Yale and in 2004 became Associate Professor in Genetics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

As an undergraduate student at Yale, Dr. White was elected Phi Beta Kappa, graduated magna cum laude and in 1993 received Yale's Belknap Award for Outstanding Graduating Senior in the Natural Sciences. He was awarded a Howard Hughes undergraduate fellowship, a Howard Hughes predoctoral fellowship, and a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellowship. He was named an NIH Genome Scholar in 2000, a W.M. Keck Distinguished Young Investigator in Medical Sciences in 2003, and an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator in 2004. White is on the editorial boards of Functional and Integrative Genomics and the Journal of Experimental Zoology, the advisory boards of FlyBase and the Drosophila Genomic Resource Center, and the scientific advisory boards of CytoGenomics, Inc., and the Rothberg Institute for Childhood Diseases. He was elected Chairman of the Gordon Conference on Genomics in 2004 and Vice-Chairman of the Gordon Conference on Hormone Action in Development and Cancer in 2005.

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