Katharine A. White, "pH Impact: From Proteins to Cells"

Ford Lecture Series (Oct. 17, 2023)
"pH Impact: From Proteins to Cells"
Katharine A. White, Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
The Dwain L Ford Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry in honor of former Chair and Professor Dwain L Ford who started this seminar program in 1965. The Series provides students, faculty and the wider community an opportunity to hear guest speakers from academia, industry and government present topics of current interest and importance in chemistry.
Speaker’s Short Bio:
Dr. Katharine A. White completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at MIT with Alice Ting, where she used enzyme engineering and evolution strategies to develop new techniques to fluorescently label proteins inside living cells. Dr. White followed that work with an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in Diane Barber’s lab at UCSF where she elucidated the molecular mechanisms of pH-sensitive wild-type and mutant proteins. In 2019, Dr. White started her lab at University of Notre Dame, where her group integrates novel molecular tool development with hypothesis-driven research to answer fundamental questions about the molecular mechanisms driving pH-dependent cell behaviors and how those mechanisms can be exploited for more effective and safer cancer therapies. Dr. White has received many early-career awards including an NIH New Innovator Award and an NSF-CAREER award.