Lamont Anderson
Associate Professor of Biology

 

E-mail: landerson@coloradocollege.edu 

Phone: (719) 389-6812

Fax: (719) 389-6940 or 389-6929
 

Address: 

The Colorado College
Biology Department
14 E. Cache La Poudre St.
Colorado Springs, CO 80903

                  FYE 2006 Website                  "BY100 Forensic Biology in the Laboratory and in Fiction" 

BY361 Website   

"Molecular and Classical Genetics"
 

 
 
Education

B.S. in Biology, University of Texas, Austin
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
 

Research Interests
      Microbiology, biochemistry, Chromobacterium violaceum, cyanobacterial physiology,     light-harvesting in photosynthesis, and self-assembly in protein systems

 
Course Information
  
BY 210 Cell Biology 
BY 309/409  Research Problems in Biology 
BY 361 Molecular and Classical Genetics
BY100 The Biology and History of Infectious Disease

FYE BY100  Forensic Biology in the Laboratory and in Fiction

Personal Interests

Family, historical miniatures, guitar.

 
Other Information

Research Publications

Brumbach, K., Eason, B., and Anderson, L.K. (2007) The Serratia-type hemolysin of Chromobacterium violaceum. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 267: 243-250. 

Anderson, L.K., and Toole, C. M. (1998) A model of early events in the assembly of a cyanobacterial phycobilisome. Mol. Microbiol. 30(3), 467-474.

Toole, C.M., Plank, T.L., Grossman, A.R., and Anderson, L.K. (1998) Bilin deletions and subunit stability in cyanobacterial light-harvesting proteins. Mol. Microbiol. 30(3), 475-486.

Plank, T., Toole, C., and Anderson, L.K. - (1995) Subunit interactions and protein stability in the cyanobacterial light harvesting proteins, J. Bacteriol. 177:6798-6803.

Plank, T., and Anderson, L.K. - (1995) Heterologous assembly and rescue of stranded phycocyanin subunits by expression of a foreign cpcBA operon in Synechocystis sp. 6803, J. Bacteriol. 177:6804-6809.

Plank, T., and Anderson, L.K. (1995) Cloning and sequence analysis of the genes encoding CpcB and CpcA from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, Plant Physiol. 109:1126.

Anderson, L.K., Plank, T., Toole, C., and Cai, J. (1995) Subunits interactions, chromophore attachment, and proteolysis in the assembly of cyanobacterial light-harvesting proteins, Prot. Engineering, Short Reports, 6:17.

Anderson, L.K., and Grossman, A.R. - (1990) Structure and light regulated expression of phycoerythrin genes in wild type and phycobilisome assembly mutants of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6701, J. Bacteriol. 172:1297-1305.

Anderson, L.K., and Grossman, A.R. - (1990) The genes for phycocyanin subunits in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6701 and the assembly mutant UV16, J. Bacteriol. 172:1289-1296.

Grossman, A.R., Anderson, L.K., Lemaux, P.G., and Conley, P.B. (1989) Molecular analysis of complementary chromatic adaptation and the biosynthesis of a phycobilisome, in "Algae as Experimental Systems", pp 269-288, Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York.

Grossman, A.R., Lemaux, P.G., Conley, P.B., Bruns, B.U. and Anderson, L.K. (1988) Characterization of phycobiliprotein and linker polypeptide genes in Fremyella diplosiphon and their regulated expression during complementary chromatic adaptation, Photosyn. Res. 17:23-56.

Anderson, L.K., and Grossman, A.R. (1987) Phycocyanin genes in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6701 and a potential gene rearrangement in a pigment variant, Prog. in Photosynthesis Res. IV:817-820.

Anderson, L.K., Rayner, M.C. and Eiserling, F.A. (1987) Mutations that affect structure and assembly of light-harvesting proteins in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain 6701, J. Bacteriol. 169:102-109.

Anderson, L.K. and Eiserling, F.A. (1986) Asymmetrical core structure in phycobilisomes of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6701, J. Mol. Biol. 191:441-451.

Anderson, L.K. and Eiserling, F.A. (1985) Plasmids of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6701, FEMS Lett. 29:193-195.

Anderson, L.K., Rayner, M.C. and Eiserling, F.A. (1984) Ultra-violet mutagenesis of Synechocystis sp. 6701: mutations in chromatic adaptation and phycobilisome assembly, Arch. Microbiol. 138:237-243.

Anderson, L.K., Rayner, M.C., Sweet, R.M. and Eiserling, F.A. (1983) Regulation of Nostoc sp. phycobilisome structure by light and temperature, J. Bacteriol. 155:1407-1416.