Christopher Johnstone
Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Johnstone is a PhD-trained chemical engineer and scientist at MIT with 11 years of experience applying quantitative and experimental skills to mammalian cell culture and metabolic engineering. Trained at Caltech (BS in Chemical Engineering with a CS minor) and MIT (PhD), he blends rigorous wet-lab research—ranging from engineered bacterial aggregation to programmed cellular circuits—with computational fluency. His work history spans academic research, industry internships, and production-focused engineering, demonstrating an ability to move projects from concept to deployable results. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings deep expertise in cell biology and biochemical systems plus a practical knack for building robust, testable solutions in collaborative environments. Notably, his early research showed selective quorum-sensing activation in aggregated E. coli, reflecting a pattern of designing biological systems that behave predictably in complex contexts.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (150)
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jupyter10
textmate10
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bokeh9
prompt9
javascript9
event-handling9
rpg9
altair9
ipywidgets9
pyodide9
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
GallowayLabMIT/rushd
Jan 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 69 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 7 months
meson800/meson800.github.io
Apr 2020 - Mar 2025
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Contributions:43 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 11 months
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