Yogesh Dhande

Experience

• Contract Software Engineer, Biotech instrumentation 2024 – now

  React and Django app for controlling a biotech instrument

• Scientific Software Engineer, Denali Therapeutics 2022 – 2024

  Scientific data apps built with Django, Docker and AWS

• Sr. Applications Engineer, Berkeley Lights 2017 – 2022

  Automation, process and product development for antibody discovery and synthetic biology

Things I've built

• Keptune AI keptune.ai

  AI data analyst. Ask questions in plain English and get charts, statistics and insights.

• Spaces usespaces.dev

  Command center for parallel AI coding sessions, on any machine, with worktrees and ports managed for you.

• Python Fiddle python-fiddle.com

  Run Python in your browser and share snippets.

• REPL Notes replnotes.com

  Blogging platform powered by Jupyter notebooks, with custom domains.

• Single Dispatch Chrome Web Store

  Chrome extension that adds a command palette to any website.

Patents

• Systems for operating microfluidic devices 2025

  US 12,502,668 B2 · Granted Dec 2025 · Bruker Cellular Analysis (Berkeley Lights)

  Angel Navas Angeles, Johannes Paul Sluis, John A. Tenney, Yogesh Khemchandra Dhande, Patrick N. Ingram, Erin Chia-wei Hsi, Christopher C. Shing, John Junyeon Kim, Keith J. Breinlinger, Raziel Solomon Alon

• Polymers including galactose based blocks and uses thereof 2022

  US 11,396,571 B2 · Granted Jul 2022, published as US 2016/0346395 A1 · University of Minnesota

  Theresa M. Reineke, Yogesh Khemchandra Dhande, Bharat Sanjay Wagh

• Biosynthetic pathways, recombinant cells, and methods 2015

  US 2015/0132813 A1 · Application, May 2015 · University of Minnesota

  Kechun Zhang, Yogesh K. Dhande

Publications

• Cell Penetrating Polymers Containing Guanidinium Trigger Apoptosis in Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells unless Conjugated to a Targeting N-Acetyl-Galactosamine Block 2017

  Zhe Tan, Yogesh K Dhande, Theresa M Reineke

  Bioconjugate Chemistry 28 (12), 2985–2997

• Complexation of Linear DNA and Poly(styrenesulfonate) with Cationic Copolymer Micelles: Effect of Polyanion Flexibility 2017

  Yaming Jiang, Dustin Sprouse, Jennifer E Laaser, Yogesh Dhande, Theresa M Reineke, Timothy P Lodge

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121 (27), 6708–6720

• N-Acetylgalactosamine Block-co-Polycations Form Stable Polyplexes with Plasmids and Promote Liver-Targeted Delivery 2016

  Yogesh K Dhande, Bharat S Wagh, Bryan C Hall, Dustin Sprouse, Perry B Hackett, Theresa M Reineke

  Biomacromolecules 17 (3), 830–840

• Production of C5 carboxylic acids in engineered Escherichia coli 2012

  Yogesh K Dhande, Mingyong Xiong, Kechun Zhang

  Process Biochemistry 47 (12), 1965–1971

• A synthetic metabolic pathway for production of the platform chemical isobutyric acid 2011

  Kechun Zhang, Adam P Woodruff, Mingyong Xiong, Jun Zhou, Yogesh K Dhande

  ChemSusChem 4 (8), 1068–1070

Degrees

• PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota 2013 – 2017

  Reineke Lab · nanoparticles and gene delivery

• M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota 2010 – 2013

  Zhang Lab · synthetic biology

• B.S., Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai 2006 – 2010