J Anderson
Associate Professor
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJ 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.
12 years of coding experience
PhD, Chemistry, PhD, Chemistry at The Scripps Research InstituteUniversity of California, San FranciscoBachelor of Science (B.S.), General Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), General Chemistry at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Spanish
Github Skills (5)
bioengineering10
synthetic10
biology9
bioinformatics9
synthetic-biology9
Github contributions (5)
UCB-BioE-Genetic-Design-Automation/GradingC5
Oct 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
UCB-BioE-Anderson-Lab/EVODEX
Jun 2024 - Sep 2024
Contributions:128 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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