Rate My Professor Mirren White

Dr Mirren White is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Wallace Lab at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Biological Sciences. An Edinburgh native, she earned a BSc (Hons) in Genetics from the University of Glasgow in 2014. She subsequently completed an MSc in Science Communication and Public Engagement at the University of Edinburgh in 2015 and worked in that sector for three years. She then pursued an MSc in Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with Distinction in 2019. During her MSc studies, she participated in the 2019 iGEM competition, contributing to a project on azo dye detection and bioremediation that received a Silver Medal.

White joined the Wallace Lab in 2020 as a research assistant focused on metabolic engineering of bacteria for high-value product production. She began her IBioIC-funded PhD in October 2020, investigating the sustainable production of industrial chemicals through a combination of engineered bacterial metabolism and chemical catalysis, in collaboration with MiAlgae. She passed her viva in April 2025 and continues in the lab as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.

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