Joel Berendzen
Founder at GenerisBio, LLC
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJoel Berendzen is a founder and scientist with over a decade translating theoretical biophysics into practical biotech and drug-discovery tools, currently leading GenerisBio from Santa Fe. He discovered that proton and hydroxide “wires” in crystal waters dominate protein conformational energies and drug binding, a finding that reframes structure-based AI, molecular dynamics, and antibody epitope prediction. Joel’s career spans pioneering kinetic crystallography, structural genomics, metagenomics, and award-winning bioinformatics software development at Los Alamos, blending deep physics training (PhD Biophysics, UIUC) with hands-on computational invention. Pragmatic about translation, he has applied ML and translational informatics in both academic health and commercial settings to move this chemistry-driven insight toward actionable ligand and epitope design.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Harvey Mudd CollegeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (128)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
joelb123/click_loguru
Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
Simple loguru logging to file and stderr for your click application
Contributions:76 commits, 29 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 5 months
logginglogurustderrclicommand-line-interface
hydrationdynamics/zeigen
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Show structures of protonated water species in atomic-resolution crystal structures
Contributions:64 PRs, 139 pushes, 31 branches in 1 year 5 months
chemoinformaticsquantum-mechanicscrystalresolutionhigh-energy-physics
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