Purnima D. Pinnaduwage

Purnima D. Pinnaduwage, Ph. D.
Senior Lecturer, BCMB

Office: WLS, F-205: (865-974-7793)

Lab: WLS, F-113 (865-974-2001)

Email: ppinnadu@utk.edu

Ph. D. in Biological Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA (1985).
B.S in Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (1980).

Courses Taught

• BCMB/Physiology/Nutrition/Cell Biology classes

Courses currently teaching

• Cell/comparative biochemistry (BCMB) advanced lab course – spectroscopy, protein assays, enzyme assays, protein purification (ion exchange, affinity and gel filtration), Recombinant protein purification, gel electrophoresis(SDS-PAGE) and western blotting, Enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA), polymerase chain reaction (PCR), restriction mapping and recombinant DNA technologies including cloning and transfection.
• Introductory Biology classes: Basic Cell Biology– organization and function of the cell