User:JCAnderson

J. Christopher Anderson, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

• Home
• iGEM
• Protocols
• Tutorials

John Christopher Anderson

Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley
JCAnderson at berkeley dot edu Anderson Lab

Affiliations:

SynBERC

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

• 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

1. Guo, J., Wang, J., Anderson, J. C., Schultz, P. G. "Addition of an Alpha Hydroxy Acid to the Genetic Code of Bacteria" Angew. Chem. E., Published Online: 11 Dec 2007.
2. 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.
3. Anderson, J. C. "Cells By Design" Technology Review, 2007.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Anderson, J. C., Magliery, T. J., Schultz, P. G. “Exploring the limits of codon and anticodon size” Chem. Biol., 9(2), 237-244, 2002.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.