Professor
University of Florida
Andrew Hanson has worked for >30 years on plant and microbial metabolic biochemistry and engineering. After starting out in agribusiness research in the UK, he received postdoctoral training in France, then moved successively to the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory at Michigan State University, to Université de Montréal, and to University of Florida. His research portfolio includes stress metabolism, amino acid and sulfur metabolism, B vitamin metabolism, metabolite damage and repair, and the application of synthetic biology to metabolic engineering. His group’s research aims to be useful to agriculture and the bioeconomy. He speaks French and Spanish and is on Twitter @ADHansonLab