The Ramanathan Lab
Dil Ramanathan, PhD
Dr. Dil Ramanathan joined NJCSTM in 2008 as Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Her laboratory research is rooted in analytical chemistry and her instrument of choice is mass spectrometry. Over 15 years, she has applied her expertise in mass spectrometry, analytical chemistry, chemical instrumentation techniques, drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics to develop novel, rapid, sensitive and reproducible methods to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze drugs and their metabolites.
Dr. Ramanathan received her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Iowa State University and a Ph.D. degree in Analytical/Physical Chemistry from the University of Florida. She also completed one year as a postdoctoral researcher/faculty intern at the University of Utah, where she applied mass spectrometry to study binding and thermodynamic properties of metal clusters.
Current Research Focus - Identification & Characterization of Drug-Like Chemical Compounds in Medicinal Plants Using Chromatography & Mass Spectrometry Techniques
Analytical techniques are used to determine the chemical makeup of our environment as well as the organisms that inhabit it and are powerful tools that help us understand our universe. Instruments that perform these analyses have been sent to the most extreme and complex environments we know, such as far reaching planets, comets, the deepest depths of our oceans, and the organellar structures of living organisms.
In this research stream, students will be trained to have hands-on experience in using chemical instrumentation such as head-space gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and high performance liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry. Research will involve the analysis of drug metabolites found in the environment as well as the identification of potential novel medicinal compounds found in tropical plants. This research stream is appropriate for students interested in, astrophysics, biology, biomedicine, biotechnology, chemistry, geology, molecular biology, marine biology, sustainability sciences and physics.
Microbes and Microbiomes
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