As
molecular biology and
developmental biology were becoming intrinsically linked, she moved to the
Friedrich Miescher laboratory, Germany in 1981 (which had been launched one month before) to work with
Christiane Nüsslein Volhard on the genetic control of embryonic development in
Drosophila. Combining embryological manipulation with developmental genetics, they identified the molecules that controlled various embryological processes and in particular, the
dorsal-ventral signaling. In 1985, Anderson became an assistant professor at the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology over
University of California, Berkeley. She continued her work, identifying several genes involved in dorsal-ventral patterning and cloning them, especially the
Toll gene. She also delineated the genetic pathway that de-differentiates the various cell types. From 1993 to 1994, she carried out research in mouse embryonics at the
National Institute for Medical Research, United Kingdom under the guidance of
Rosa Beddington. In 1996, she joined the Molecular Biology Program at the
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York. ==Personal life==