Abigail Johnson
Associate Professor
Palmerston North, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand
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Top SchoolAbigail Johnson is an Associate Professor and registered dietitian who blends bioinformatics and data science to advance diet-microbiome research, with nine years of experience spanning academia and industry. She built computational methods during a postdoc in the Knights Lab to reveal personalized food–microbiome interactions and improve statistical models using food relationship networks. Her work includes translational roles at Nestlé Health Science and leadership as Associate Director at the University of Minnesota Nutrition Coordinating Center, bridging R&D, product substantiation, and rigorous analytics. Now based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, she holds a PhD in Nutrition and fosters sustainable nutrition research through her roles at Massey University and the Sustainable Nutrition Initiative®. Abigail’s profile reflects a rare combination of hands-on bioinformatics, clinical nutrition expertise, and experience translating findings into real-world nutritional solutions. She often applies methods developed for precision microbiome science to practical problems like product innovation and population nutrition metrics.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Nutrition, PhD, Nutrition at University of MinnesotaMolecular Metabolism and Nutrition, Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition at University of Chicago
Github Skills (2)
r-package3
python3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
knights-lab/Food_Tree
Mar 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:48 commits, 39 pushes in 2 years 11 months
knights-lab/dietstudy_analyses
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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