J. Christopher Anderson
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorJ Anderson is an associate professor at UC Berkeley with 13 years of experience running a synthetic biology lab that integrates wet-lab science with software and automation. Trained as a chemist (PhD, The Scripps Research Institute), his early work on site-specific incorporation of unnatural amino acids informs current projects at the intersection of genetic circuits, therapeutic bacteria, and lab automation. He focuses on building software-driven workflows spanning target selection, design, biosafety, and IP management, and is actively developing LLM-based AI tools to accelerate scientific research. As a former CSO at a biotech startup, he blends academic rigor with product-minded leadership and collaboration across students, postdocs, and programmers. Based in Berkeley, he is actively seeking collaborators to translate AI and automation advances into practical synthetic biology tools. Notably, his profile emphasizes end-to-end tooling for reproducible, safe, and IP-aware biological design—an often overlooked but crucial bridge between discovery and deployment.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
data-mining10
bioinformatics10
bioengineering10
synthetic10
synthetic-biology10
biology9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
UCB-BioE-Anderson-Lab/EVODEX
Jun 2024 - Jun 2026
Contributions:6 releases, 265 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years
UCB-BioE-Anderson-Lab/cloning-tutorials
Mar 2025 - Mar 2026
Contributions:269 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 1 year
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