Position(s):
Associate Professor, Dept. of Bioscience & Biotechnology

Office: 311 Stratton Hall

Phone: (215) 895-2631 (Office)
            (215) 895-6892 (Lab)

Email: anandans@drexel.edu

Educational Information

Ph.D. - University of California at Los Angeles

Courses Taught

BIO122: Cells and Genetics
BIO212: Biotechnology
BIO221: Microbiology
BIO312: Genetically Modified Foods
BIO320: Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis
BIO530: Microbial Genetics
BIO670: Medical Microbiology

My research interests center on how photosynthetic organisms sense and respond to environmental cues. I am particularly interested in the molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression in cyanobacteria, and the environmental factors that cause these changes.
I am also active in innovating the use and application of molecular biological tools to answer questions in food microbiology and environmental biology.

Specifically, my research program focuses on the following:

• Gene Expression and adaptation to environmental cues in cyanobacteria
• Molecular Mechanisms in the Regulation of Photosynthesis
• Use of molecular and microbiological techniques to assess food safety
• Use of molecular biological tools to predict and evaluate environmental damage

To view some of Dr. Anandan's published work [...click here...]

Post-Docs and Graduate Students

Kimberly Magrini: The use of microarrays to determine environmental damage in plants
                          exposed to soil from Army burning grounds.

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