Joshua Dunn
Vice President, Computational Biology
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Dunn is a senior computational biology leader with 11+ years of experience bridging molecular biology, genomics, and data-driven design, currently leading Computational Biology at Perimeter after senior leadership roles at Ginkgo Bioworks. He earned a PhD from UCSF studying alternative genetic-code decoding in Jonathan Weissman’s lab and has a track record of translating deep wet-lab expertise into engineered strains, patents, and internal software at companies like Microbia. Joshua blends hands-on lab skills (yeast and fungal genetics, fermentation, assay development) with bioinformatics, information design, and technical writing to drive cross-disciplinary projects. He is equally at home shipping computational tools and prototyping in the lab, enjoys collaborating with thinkers from other disciplines, and brings a curiosity for microbes—especially fungi—that often guides creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, Bachelor's Degree, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology at Yale UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Genomics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Genomics at University of California, San Francisco
Github Skills (22)
sequencing10
tabix9
pysam9
bioinformatics9
bcftools9
htslib9
samtools8
python7
data-processing5
pandas-dataframe5
dataframes5
testing5
hypothesis-testing4
schema4
validation4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
joshuagryphon/minihmm
Dec 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:90 pushes, 7 branches, 9 tags in 7 years 4 months
joshuagryphon/plastid
Jun 2015 - May 2022
Position-wise analysis of sequencing and genomics data
Contributions:991 commits, 4 PRs, 344 pushes in 7 years
sequencing
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