B.Sc. (Chemistry), University of Ceylon, 1975 M.Sc. (Biochemistry)University of Sri Lanka, 1977 Postgraduate Diploma in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, , 1979 Ph. D. (Chemistry) University of Keele, United Kingdom, 1983 Honors & Awards 1979, UNESCO Fellowship (Tokyo Institute of Technology) 1981, British Council Award for Graduate Tuition Fee Support 1982, Edwina Mountbatten Award 1984, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, Germany

Mass Spectrometrric Ion fragmentations Bioanalytical Chemistry Microchemical techniques Chromatography GC-Infrared Spectrometry Natural Products Chemical Communication and Defense in Arthropods Chemical Ecology “Chemical Prospecting” by Pharmacological Screening of Tropical Rain Forest Natural Products.

"Biosynthetic Studies of Platensimycin Kithsiri B. Herath,, Athula B. Attygalle, Sheo B. Singh. Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (2007) 15422-15423.".

Synthesis of Positively Charged Silver Nanoparticles via Oxidative Photoreduction of AgNO3 and Branched Polyethyleneimine in HEPES Solutions. Siliu Tan, Melek Erol, Athula Attygalle, Henry Du , and Svetlana Sukhishvili. Langmuir 23 (2007) 9836-9843.

Characterization of (E,E)-farnesol and its fatty acid esters from anal scent glands of nutria (Myocastor nutria) by GC-MS and GC-IR. J. Chromatogr. A 1165 (2007) 136-143.

Synthesis of [2,3,4,5,6-2H5]phenyl glucosinolateJournal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals 50 (2007) 711�715.

Low-energy collision-induced fragmentation of negative ions derived from ortho-, meta-, and para-hydroxyphenyl carbaldehydes, ketones, and related compounds. J. Mass Spectrom. 42 (2007) 1207�1217.

Identification of three novel peptides isolated from the venom of the neotropical social wasp Polistes major major. J. Peptide Sci. 13 (2007) 445 - 450.

Hydroquinones from defensive secretion of a giant Pacific millipede, Acladocricus setigerus (Diplopoda: Spirobolida) Chemoecology 17 (2007) 131-138.

Biosynthesis of tiglic, ethacrylic and 2-methylbutyric acids in a carabid beetle, Pterostichus (Hypherpes) californicus (Carabidae). J. Chem. Ecol 33 (2007) 1573-1561.

48 (2007). "Surface modification of protein nanocontainers and their self-directing character in polymer blends. Polymer 3632-3640. ".

J. Mass Spectrom. 42 (2007) 233-243.. "LC/MS Characterization of Undesired Products Formed During Iodoacetamide Derivatization of Sulfhydryl Groups of Peptides. ".

"Structure and function of Dufour gland pheromones from the crazy ant Paratrechina longicornis. Chemoecology 17 (2007) 63-69".

17 (2007). "Complex Chemical Communication in the Crazy Ant Paratrechina longicornis Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Chemoecology 57-72.".

"An unprecedented ortho effect in mass spectrometric fragmentation of even-electron negative ions from hydroxyphenyl carbaldehydes and ketones Tetrahedron Lett. 47 (2006) 4601-4603. [Corrigendum: Tetrahedron Letters 48 (2007) 3485]".

"An Unprecedented Rearrangement in Collision-Induced Mass Spectrometric Fragmentation of Protonated Benzylamines. J. Mass Spectrom. 41 (2006) 1195-1204".

"Contents of the hypertrophied postpharyngeal gland of workers and soldiers of the fire ant Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology, 47 (2006) 471-482 ".

"An Unexpected Ion-Molecule Adduct in Negative-Ion Collision-induced Decomposition (CID) Ion-Trap Mass Spectra of Halogenated Benzoic Acids . Rapid. Comm. Mass Spectrom. 20 (2006) 2265-2270.".

Jason B. Bialecki, Frank U. Axe, and Athula B. Attygalle. (Feb 1, ). "Hydroxycarbonyl anion (m/z 45), a diagnostic marker for α-hydroxy carboxylic acids", Journal of Mass Spectrometry , 44 252-259.

M. Haribal, J. A. A. Renwick, A. B. Attygalle, and D. Kiemle. (2006). "A feeding stimulant for Manduca sexta from Solanum surattenses. ", J. Chem. Ecol. 32 (2006).

Athula B. Attygalle, Freneil B. Jariwala, Julius Pavlov, Zhihua Yang, Jason A. Mahr, and Mabel Oviedo. (2014). "Direct Detection and Identification of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients in Intact Tablets by Helium Plasma Ionization (HePI) Mass Spectrometry", Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis. , 4 166-172.

Jason B. Bialecki, Carl S. Weisbecker and Athula B. Attygalle. (2014). "Low-energy Collision-induced Dissociation Mass Spectra of Protonated p-Toluenesulfonamides Derived from Aliphatic Amines", Journal of the American Society of Mass Spectrometry, 25 1068-1078.