John Sexton, Ph.D.

John Sexton is a synthetic biologist with deep expertise in genetic circuit design and a solid foundation in computational and programming methods and tools. Prior to Strand, he completed his Ph.D. and short postdoc at Rice University, where he designed and built genetic circuits to improve cell-cell communication in bacteria. He also co-developed an open-source software package for flow cytometry analysis, which is now used in academic and industrial labs around the world. His work has been featured in leading research journals including Molecular Systems Biology and ACS Synthetic Biology. Prior to graduate school, John was a Padawan at Ginkgo Bioworks. John also holds a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.