Anand K. Ramasubramanian, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases

Educational Background:
B.S., Ch.E. (Annamalai University, India)
M.S., Ch.E. (IISc, India)
Ph.D., BioE (Rice University, Houston, TX)
Post-doc, Ch.E. (UC-Berkeley in collaboration with RPI, NY)

Areas of Teaching Interest:
Introduction to Cellular Engineering (Spring ’09)
Transport and Reaction Processes in Biological Systems (Fall ’09)
Applied Mathematics in Bioengineering (Fall ’10)

Areas of Research Interest:

• Vascular bioengineering
• Microfluidic technologies for novel diagnostics
• High-throughput technologies for drug discovery and diagnostics

Office: AET 1.334
anand.ramasubramanian@utsa.edu
Phone 210-458-6555
Fax: 210-458-7007
Link to Laboratory

Selected Publications

• Evani, S.J., R.K. Montgomery, A.K. Murthy, B.P. Arulanandam, and A.K. Ramasubramanian (2010), “Hydrodynamic regulation of monocyte inflammatory response to an obligate intracellular pathogen”, Submitted.


• Uppuluri, P., A.K. Chaturvedi, A. Srinivasan, M. Banerjee, A.K. Ramasubramanian, J.R. Kohler, D. Kadosh, and J.L. Lopez-Ribot (2010), “Dispersion as an Important Step in the Candida albicans Biofilm Developmental Cycle”, PLoS Pathogen, 6: e1000828


• R.A. Kumar, N. Prasteyojo, S. Hyunh, and D.S. Clark (2009), “Differential in vitro cytotoxicity of doxorubicin and 5-fluorouracil to cancer and normal human mammary epithelial cells”, Submitted


• Kumar, R.A., N. Papaiconomou, J. Salminen, J.M. Lee, D.S. Clark and J.M. Prausnitz (2009), “In vitro cytotoxicities of ionic liquids: Effect of cation rings, anions and functional groups”, 24:388-395.


• Lee, M.-Y.*, Kumar, R. A.*, M. Hogg, S. Sukumaran, J.S. Dordick, D.S. Clark (2008), “Three-dimensional cellular microarray for high-throughput toxicology assays”, PNAS, 105, 59-63 (* equal contribution)


• J. Salminen, N. Papaiconomou, R.A. Kumar, J.-M. Lee, and J.M. Prausnitz (2007), “Physicochemical properties and toxicities of hydrophobic piperidinium and pyrrolidinium ionic liquids”, Fluid Phase Equilibria, 261, 421-426.


• Kumar, R.A., D.S. Clark (2006) “High-throughput assays for biocatalysis: applications in drug discovery”, Curr. Opin. Chem. Biol. 10, 162-168.


• Arora, P., R.A. Kumar and K.V. Venkatesh (1999), “Analysis of the Optimal model for substrate substitutability in continuous microbial cultures”, Chem. Engng. Sci., 54, 987-997.


• Kumar, R.A., J.-f. Dong, J. Thaggard, M.A. Cruz, J.A. Lopez and L.V. McIntire (2003), “Kinetics of GPIba - VWf-A1 tether bond under flow: Effect of GPIba mutations on the association and dissociation rates”, Biophys. J., 85, 4099-4109.


• Arora, P., R.A. Kumar and K.V. Venkatesh (1999), “Analysis of the Optimal model for substrate substitutability in continuous microbial cultures”, Chem. Engng. Sci., 54, 987-997.


• Venkatesh, K.V., P.J. Bhat, R.A. Kumar and P. Doshi (1999), “Quantitative model for Gal4p-mediated expression of the Gal/Mel regulon in S. cerevisiae”, Biotech. Prog. , 15, 51-57.


• Kumar, R.A. and J.M. Modak (1997), “Transient Analysis of mammalian cell growth in hollow fiber bioreactor”, Chem. Engng. Sci., 52(12), pp. 1845-1860.