Benjamin Johnson
Lead Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Johnson is a postdoctoral fellow and senior research scientist at the Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids with 11 years of experience bridging microbiology, molecular genetics, and bioinformatics. He earned a PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Michigan State University and began contributing to translational research and computational biology at Van Andel in 2016. His roles have ranged from bioinformatics research scientist to research assistant and now postdoc, reflecting a blend of hands-on lab work and data-driven analysis. Benjamin focuses on integrating high-throughput data with biological insight to advance disease-focused research, often translating complex datasets into actionable hypotheses. Colleagues know him for sustained institutional engagement and for bringing both deep academic training and practical problem-solving to long-term projects. Based in Michigan, he combines steady research leadership with an appetite for collaborative, cross-disciplinary science.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Biology, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology at Calvin UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (101)
projection10
seq10
topological-data-analysis10
bioconductor10
approximation10
bacteria10
kallisto10
dimensionality-reduction10
rna-seq10
uniform10
bioinformatics10
structural-variation9
gene-expression9
genomics9
visualization9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
huishenlab/compartmap
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
Reconstruction of higher order chromatin from scRNA-seq and scATAC-seq
Contributions:5 reviews, 295 commits, 56 PRs in 3 years 4 months
chromatinreconstructionscrna-seqbioinformaticsseq
biobenkj/MTseeker
Feb 2019 - Jan 2024
mitochondrial variant analysis tools
Contributions:2 PRs, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
bioinformaticsvariant-analysisanalysis-toolsgenomics
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