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John Christopher Anderson
Assistant Professor Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley

JCAnderson at berkeley dot edu Anderson Lab

Affiliations
SynBERC Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Clotho Core Development Team

Anderson Lab
My research interests are broad but all fit under the umbrella of Synthetic Biology. We have a particular interest in foundational technology including automated DNA fabrication and functional analysis, BioCAD tools, and new approaches to protein and promoter engineering. Additionally, we investigate new applications for synthetic biology including a primary focus on therapeutic bacteria for the treatment of cancer. We also have interests in diagnostics, new frontiers in small molecule biosynthesis, material production, and anything that expands the scope of synthetic biology to create new products and improve the human condition. Though we have done extensive work in software development, we are primarily a wetlab housed in Stanley Hall on the main campus of UC Berkeley. JC Anderson has mentored the Berkeley iGEM team for the past 6 years, and we accept students at the undergraduate, graduate, postdoc, and technician levels for independent projects.

Education

 * 2007 Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, Department of Bioengineering
 * 2003-2007, Postdoctoral Fellow with Adam Arkin (UC Berkeley) and Christopher Voigt (UCSF)
 * 2003, PhD, The Scripps Research Institute, Advisor Peter Schultz
 * 1998, BS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Honors and Awards

 * 2009	The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition (Instructor):
 * Best software award for tools team
 * 2008	The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition (Instructor):
 * Finalist for wet team
 * Best software award for tools team
 * 2007	The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition (Instructor):
 * Finalist
 * Best Poster Award
 * 2007	Technology Review TR35 Award
 * 2006	The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition (Instructor):
 * 1st Place Best Part
 * 3rd Place Best Measurement and Part Characterization
 * 2006	Synthetic Biology 2.0: Best Application Award
 * 2003	Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
 * 1998-2001	NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
 * 1998	Venable Medal
 * 1996	Phi Beta Kappa
 * 1995	Phi Eta Sigma
 * 1995	Freshman Honors Program
 * 1994-1998	Dean’s List

Publications and Conference Papers

 * 1) Leguia M, Brophy J, Densmore D, Anderson JC. "Automated assembly of standard biological parts," Methods Enzymol. 498:363-97, 2011.
 * 2) Xia B, Bhatia S, Bubenheim B, Dadgar M, Densmore D, Anderson JC. "Developer's and User's Guide to Clotho v2.0 A Software Platform for the Creation of Synthetic Biological Systems," Methods Enzymol. 498:97-135, 2011.
 * 3) Bilitchenko, L, Liu, A., Cheung, S., Weeding, E., Xia, B., Leguia, M., Anderson, J. C., Densmore, D. "Eugene – A Domain Specific Language for Specifying and Constraining Synthetic Biological Parts, Devices, and Systems"  PLoS One, 2011.
 * 4) Peccoud, J., Anderson, J. C., Chandran, D., Densmore, D., Galdzicki, M., Lux, M. W., Rodriguez, C. A., Stan, G. B., Sauro, H. M. "Essential information for synthetic DNA sequences," Nat Biotechnol., 29(1):22, 2011
 * 5) Densmore, D., Kittleson, J. T., Bilitchennko, L., Liu, A., Anderson, J. C. "Rule Based Constraints for the Construction of Genetic Devices," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2010, Paris France, May 2010.
 * 6) Densmore, D., Hsiau T., Batten, C., Kittleson, J. T., DeLoache, W., Anderson, J. C. "Algorithms for Automated DNA Assembly" Nucleic Acids Res.38(8):2607-16, 2010 available online.
 * 7) Anderson, J. C., Dueber, J. E., Leguia, M., Wu, G. C., Goler, J. A., Arkin, A. P., Keasling, J. D. "BglBricks: A flexible standard for biological part assembly" J. Biol. Eng., 4:1, 2010 available online.
 * 8) Densmore, D., Anderson J. C., Combinational Logic Design in Synthetic Biology, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2009, Taipei Taiwan, May 2009.
 * 9) Czar, M. J., Anderson, J. C., Bader, J. S., Peccoud, J. "Gene synthesis demystified" Trends in Biotechnology, 27(2):63-72, 2009.
 * 10) Anderson, J. C. "Cells By Design" Technology Review, 2007.
 * Guo, J., Wang, J., Anderson, J. C., Schultz, P. G. "Addition of an Alpha Hydroxy Acid to the Genetic Code of Bacteria" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 47(4) 722-725, 2007.
 * 1) Cropp, T. A., Anderson, J. C., Chin, J. W. "Reprogramming the amino acid substrate specificity of orthogonal aminoacyl-tRNA-synthetases to expand the genetic code of eukaryotic cells" Nat Protoc. 2(10):2590-600, 2007.
 * 2) Anderson, J. C., Voigt, C. A., Arkin, A. P.“Environmental signal integration by a modular AND gate” Mol. Sys. Biol., 3(133), Published online: 14 August 2007.
 * 3) Anderson, J. C., Clarke, E. J., Arkin, A. P., Voigt, C. A. “Environmentally controlled invasion of cancer cells by engineered bacteria” J. Mol Biol., 355(4), 619-27, 2005.
 * 4) Anderson, J. C., Wu, N., Santoro, S. W., Lakshman, V, King, D. S., Schultz, P.G. “An expanded genetic code with a functional quadruplet codon” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 101(20), 7566-71, 2004
 * 5) Santoro, S. W., Anderson, J. C., Lakshman, V., Schultz, P. G. “An archaebacteria-derived glutamyl-tRNA synthetase and tRNA pair for unnatural amino acid mutagenesis in Escherichia coli” Nucleic Acids Res., 31(23), 6700-9, 2003.
 * 6) Deiters, A., Cropp, T. A., Mukherji, M., Chin, J. W., Anderson, J. C., Schultz, P. G. “Adding amino acids with novel reactivity to the genetic code of Saccharomyces cerevisiae” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125(39), 11782-3, 2003.
 * 7) Chin, J. W., Cropp, T. A., Anderson, J. C., Mukherji, M., Zhang, Z., Schultz, P. G. “An expanded eukaryotic genetic code” Science, 301(5635), 964-7, 2003.
 * 8) Anderson, J. C., Schultz, P. G. “Adaptation of an orthogonal archaeal leucyl-tRNA and synthetase pair for four-base, amber, and opal suppression” Biochemistry, 42(32), 9598-9608, 2003.
 * 9) Mehl, R. A., Anderson, J. C., Santoro, S. W., Wang, L., Martin, A. B., King, D. S., Horn, D. M., Schultz, P. G. “Generation of a bacterium with a 21 amino acid genetic code” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 125(4), 935-939, 2003.
 * 10) Anderson, J. C., Magliery, T. J., Schultz, P. G. “Exploring the limits of codon and anticodon size” Chem. Biol., 9(2), 237-244, 2002.
 * 11) Magliery, T. J., Pastrnak, M., Anderson, J. C., Santoro, S. W., Herberich, B., Meggers, E. L., Wang, L. & Schultz, P. G. “In vitro tools and in vivo engineering: incorporation of unnatural amino acids into proteins” In Translation Mechanisms (ed. J. Lapointe and L. Brakier-Gingras), in press, 2001.
 * 12) Magliery, T. J., Anderson, J. C., Schultz, P. G. “Expanding the genetic code: selection of efficient suppressors of four-base codons and identification of "shifty" four-base codons with a library approach in Escherichia coli” J. Mol. Biol., 307(3), 755-69, 2001.
 * 13) Betts, D., Johnson, T., Anderson, J. C., DeSimone, J. M. “Controlled radical polymerization methods for the synthesis of non-ionic surfactants for CO2” Polym. Prepr., 38(1), 760-761, 1997.

Patents

 * 1) Schultz, P. G., Wang, L., Anderson, J. C., Chin, J. W., Liu, D. R., Magliery, T. J., Meggers, E. L., Mehl, R. A., Pastrnak, M., Santoro, S. W., Zhang, Z. “Methods and compositions for the production of orthogonal tRNA-aminoacyl tRNA synthetase pairs” US Patent 7,083,970, 2006.
 * 2) Schultz, P. G., Wang, L., Anderson, J. C., Chin, J. W., Liu, D. R., Magliery, T. J., Meggers, E. L., Mehl, R. A., Pastrnak, M., Santoro, S. W., Zhang, Z. “In vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids” US Patent 7,045,337, 2006.