• Ph.D. (2011) Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota
• M.S. (2006) Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Delhi
• B.S. (2006) Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) Delhi
• Employment:

  2011-Present Center for Nonlinear Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  2006-2011 Research Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota

  2005-2006 Research Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Research Interests:

• Infectious disease models in bacteria and viruses
• Mechanisms of drug resistance evolution in bacterial and viral models
• Novel antibacterial and antiviral therapeutics
• Mathematical modeling of gene-regulatory networks
• Mechanisms of antisense transcription
• Synthetic Biology and Systems biology

Selected Recent Publications:

1. Anushree Chatterjee, Yiannis N. Kaznessis and Wei-Shou Hu (2008): “Tweaking biological switches through a better understanding of bistability behavior.” Current Opinion in Biotechnology, Tissue, cell and pathway engineering, 19:475-481
2. Anushree Chatterjee, Yiannis N. Kaznessis, Gary M. Dunny and Wei-Shou Hu (2009): “Engineering gene regulation by tweaking transcriptional interference.” Proceedings of 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering.
3. Anushree Chatterjee, Christopher M. Johnson, Che-Chi Shu, Yiannis N. Kaznessis, Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Gary M. Dunny and Wei-Shou Hu. (2011). “Convergent transcription confers a bistable switch in Enterococcus faecalis conjugation.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108: 9721-9726.
4. Anushree Chatterjee, Laurie Drews, Sarika Mehra, Eriko Takano, Yiannis N. Kaznessis and Wei-Shou Hu (2011): “Convergent transcription in the butyrolactone regulon in Streptomyces coelicolor confers a bistable genetic switch for antibiotic biosynthesis.” PLoS ONE, 6:e21974.
5. Laura CC Cook, Anushree Chatterjee, Aaron Barnes, Jeremy Yarwood, Wei-Shou Hu and Gary M. Dunny (2011), “Biofilm growth alters regulation of conjugation by a bacterial pheromone.” Molecular Microbiology, 81(6), 1499-1510.
6. Che-Chi Shu, Anushree Chatterjee, Gary M. Dunny, Wei-Shou Hu and Doraiswami Ramkrishna (2011), “Bistability versus Bimodal Distributions in Gene Regulatory Processes from Population Balance Model.” PLoS Computational Biology 7(8):e1002140.
7. Che-Chi Shu, Anushree Chatterjee, Wei-Shou Hu and Doraiswami Ramkrishna, “Modeling of Gene regulatory processes by Population mediated Signaling. New applications of Population balances.” Chemical Engineering Science. doi:10.1016/j.ces.2011.07.062.
8. Christopher M Johnson, Heather Haeming, Anushree Chatterjee, Wei-Shou Hu, Keith E. Weaver, and Gary M. Dunny (2011), “RNA-mediated reciprocal regulation between two bacterial operons is RNAse III dependent” mBio, 2(5): doi:10.1128/mBio.00189-11.