James Winkler
Director Of Fermentation Scale-up
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Winkler is a Director of Fermentation Scale-up with 11 years of experience applying metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, and computational analysis to commercial bioprocess problems. Based in Tokyo, he builds programs to scale fermentation across food, biofuel, specialty chemical, and pharmaceutical applications while aligning R&D, business development, and leadership priorities. His background spans hands-on metabolic and adaptive evolution work, metagenomics and bioinformatics pipeline development, and production-focused data science using Java, MATLAB, and Python. At LanzaTech and Shell he translated multi-source sequencing and process data into regulatory submissions, IP strategy, and risk mitigation for pilot-to-commercial gas fermentation. He combines academic rigor—PhD in Chemical Engineering and postdoctoral work creating the LASER and Resistome resources—with practical grant and proposal management for DOE and BioMADE programs. Notably, he pairs software tooling development with wet-lab strategy to accelerate strain design and commercialization.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Chemical Engineering, BS, Chemical Engineering at Rice UniversityPhD, Chemical Engineering, PhD, Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (22)
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
tensorflow7
neural-network6
minhash6
database5
bioinformatics5
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
genomics3
genomes2
pairwise2
dimensionality-reduction2
rust2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jdwinkler/resistome_generator
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Development repo for the Resistome database and its tooling.
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 12 PRs in 10 months
database
jdwinkler/resistome_web_interface
Jan 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 55 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
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