Prince Mensah Ansah
Short Bio
Prince Mensah Ansah is a doctoral student and PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Auburn University, where he conducts research in the Mansoorabadi Group within the Biochemistry Division. His research focuses on identifying and characterizing candidate enzymes involved in the dinoflagellate luciferin biosynthesis pathway using bioinformatics and computational approaches followed by experimental validation through biochemical and functional assays.
Education
PhD Biochemistry Auburn University Present
MPhil Biodata Analytics and Computational Genomics Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 2026
GCRT Computational Biology Auburn University 2026
BSc Biochemistry Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology 2019
Professional Experience
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, Auburn University, 2024 - present
- Clinical Research Assistant, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR), 2019 - 2024
Innovation
- Elucidation of Dinoflagellate Luciferin Biosynthesis Pathway
- Coenzyme F430 biosynthesis pathway
- Characterizing unknown methyl-Coenzyme M reductase postranslationally modified (PTMs) enzymes
