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Joshua Weinstein is a biophysicist and molecular technologist focusing on DNA-based technologies for high-throughput encoding and decoding of biological information with applications in biology and medicine. He has applied massively parallel DNA sequencing to study immune receptor repertoires and invented DNA microscopy, an imaging modality that uses DNA as an imaging medium to generate detailed pictures of genetic diversity within biological specimens. Weinstein completed his undergraduate studies in physics and biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a PhD in biophysics from Stanford University in 2012 under the direction of Stephen Quake and Daniel Fisher. He has published significant work on immune receptor sequence repertoires using zebrafish as a model organism and has researched immune development related to human vaccine responses. After completing postdoctoral work at the Broad Institute and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jointly mentored by Feng Zhang and Aviv Regev, he developed DNA microscopy, which allows biological specimens to 'image themselves'. In 2019, Weinstein took his current position as an assistant professor in the section of genetic medicine at the University of Chicago.
Department of Philosophy