UNSW Leaders in ScienceAssociate Professor Peter White
Senior Lecturer in Microbiology and Molecular BiologyBiological Sciences Building, Room 263A
Phone: +61 2 9385 3780 - Fax: +61 2 9385 1483 - Email: p.white@unsw.edu.au Career profilePublicationsResearchSupervision & teachingFunding PhD positions available
Opportunities are now available for PhD research projects supervised by Associate Professor Peter White. Click here to find out more about postgraduate research at the UNSW Faculty of Science. Supervision & teachingSummaryLecturing2003 -present Course Convener: 3rd year science course - Viruses and Disease (MICR3061) Course lecturer: - Viruses and Disease (MICR3061)
- 1st/2nd year medical course MED 3802
- 2nd year science course - Principles of Molecular Biology - Advanced (BIOC2201)
- 3rd year science course - Microbial Physiology: A Molecular Approach (MICR3611)
2003-2005 Lecturer - 3rd year medical course - Microbiology for Medical Students (MICM3228) 1998-2002 Lecturer - Viruses and Disease (MICR3061), UNSW 1999-2002 Lecturer - Microbiology for Medical Students (MICM3228), UNSW PhD Project SupervisionPrimary Supervisor 2007 Inhibition of Norovirus Replication Understanding Hepatitis C Viral Immune Escape 2006 Molecular evolution of HCV quasispecies (Aileen Oon) 2005 Molecular epidemiology and quantification of norovirus (Elise Tu) A study of integron integrase activity (Jenny Mak) 2004 Characterisation of RNA dependent RNA polymerases norovirus (Rowena Bull) - Completed 2003 Development of internal quality controls for enumerating bacteria (Charlotte Morgan-part time) - Completed 2002 Development of aptamers to the RNA dependent RNA polymerase of hepatitis C virus (Louisa Jones) - Completed 2001 Studies of the hepatitis C virus polymerase RNA dependent RNA polymerase (Leighton Clancy) - Completed Co-supervisor 2007 Hepatitis C Virus Regulation of Innate Immunity (Filip Bebek). 2001 Microtransfusion as a mechanism of HIV vertical transmission (Julia Warning) - Completed Incidence of hepatitis C virus reinfection and superinfection within a cohort of injecting drug users (Joanne Micallef) - Completed M.Sc Project Supervision2006 Molecular evolution of HCV quasispecies (Aileen Oon) - Completed Honours Project SupervisionUniversity of New South Wales 2008 Epidemiology of Hepatitis C Virus Reinfection and the Investigation of Viral Evolution during Treatment (Melanie Renkin) 2007 Expression of Feline Calicivirus RNA polymerase (John Eden) 2005 Methods for Measuring Hepatitis C Viral Complexity (Aileen Oon) Genomic Variation of Norovirus (Sharon Chan) 2004 Comparison of integron integrase activity measured using real-time polymerase chain reaction (Jenny Mak) Cloning and expression of hepatitis C virus genotype 3a polymerases (Jo Tan) Quality control DNA standard for real-time PCR. (Zena Kassir). An epidemiologic study of norovirus in Sydney using a novel detection method. (Elise Tu) 2003 Sequential sequence changes in the HCV polymerase encoding region NS5b (Victoria Madigan) Rapid detection procedures for human enteric viruses (Rowena Bull) 2002 Genotyping of Norwalk-Like viruses: approaches for detection (Megan Duckworth) 2001 Genetic mechanisms and dissemination of antibiotic resistance (Louisa Jones) Methods for detecting HCV quasispecies (Joanne Micallef) Molecular epidemiology of Norwalk-like viruses in infants and young children in Sydney (Joanne Dable) 1999 Expression of envelope glycoproteins of HCV and HGV (Chris Booth) 1998 Detection of viral agents of gastroenteritis by electron microscopy and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (Grant Hansman) University of Technology, Sydney 2000 Expression of the envelope glycoprotein-2 (E2) of hepatitis C virus (Nghia Le) 1999 Integron prevalence in extended spectrum beta-lactamase expressing bacteria (Tuli Ray) Macquarie University 1997 The characterisation of integrons in antibiotic resistant bacteria (Debbie Watson) Other Experience2000-01 Supervision of five HIV AusAID trainees from Thailand 1998-00 Supervision of nine trainees from China through an AusAID funded hepatitis program | 
