Susan E. (Genie) White

Microbiologist, USDA, ARS, CMAVE

Gainesville, FL 

 

Contact information

PO Box 14565

Gainesville, FL 32604

 

(352) 374-5964

 

gwhite@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu

 

Educational Background

1969 BS in Animal Sciences, University of Florida

1972 post graduate studies in Entomology, University of Florida

 

Research Experience

2001 to present: Microbiologist, USDA, ARS, Gainesville, FL

1972 - 2001:            Biological Technician, USDA, ARS, Gainesville, FL

1971-1972:             Biological Technician, University Tenn, Knoxville, TN

1969-1971:            Biological Technician, USDA, ARS, Gainesville, FL

 

Membership

Society of Invertebrate Pathology

 

Significant Accomplishments

Co-author of a patent on a unique baculovirus in Culex quinquefasciatus including the identification of cofactors required for infection and inhibitors.

 

Isolation of two Helicosporidium, one from field water and the other from a weevil.

 

Determination of intermediate hosts of two Amblyosporidae microsporidia which infect mosquitoes.