Sanjeevan Rajendran

I am a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Chemistry at the University of South Florida (USF). My current research focuses on engineering yeast for enhanced production of coral terpenes and transient expression of coral biosynthetic pathways in plant.

I earned my Ph.D. in Natural Products Chemistry from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 2019. My doctoral research centered on plant- and fungi-derived secondary metabolites, including cyclic peptides, their biological activities, and transcriptomic analyses to elucidate their biosynthetic pathways. During my first postdoctoral appointment at the University of North Texas (UNT), I worked on the production of fungal medicinal compounds in plant and the isolation of metabolites from a bioherbicidal fungus, gaining extensive experience in synthetic biology.