Andrew D. Hanson

Biosketch

Andrew D. Hanson is C.V. Griffin Sr. Eminent Scholar in the Horticultural Sciences Department at the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. His B.Sc. in Biochemistry and Botany and his Ph.D. in Plant Physiology, supervised by Prof. Jack Edelman (1927-2011), are from Queen Elizabeth College (now reunited with King’s College), University of London, U.K. After a short but formative period working on cereal seed vigor in the Crop Science Department at Rank Hovis McDougall Ltd., he received postdoctoral training in plant biochemistry and metabolism at the Université d’Aix-Marseille and the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory (PRL) at Michigan State University, respectively supervised by Dr. Claude Péaud-Lenoël (1918-2016) and Prof. Hans Kende (1937-2006). He then became a faculty member at the PRL, jointly appointed in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences. After moving to the Institut de Recherche en Biologie Végétale of the Université de Montréal, he moved again to the University of Florida. He is a fellow of the AAAS.

Research Interests

Dr. Andrew D. Hanson has worked on plant and microbial metabolic biochemistry and engineering, mainly in relation to primary pathways. His research experience includes crop stress metabolism, amino acid and sulfur metabolism, B vitamin metabolism, metabolite damage and repair pathways, and the use of synthetic biology, particularly directed enzyme evolution, in metabolic engineering. His research is guided by the aim of utility to agriculture and the bioeconomy.