Advancing molecular discovery through the integration of biochemical rigor and computational scale.
I am Jason Hernandez, a biochemist who lives at the edge between wet lab work and code. Most of my recent time has gone into protein assay development, high-throughput screening, and the work of making data clean enough to trust.
Heat Shock Pineapple is the umbrella I use for my work in science and computation. The name is a nod to the heat shock proteins I studied at UCSF—molecular chaperones that keep other proteins from falling apart when conditions get rough.
I like building experiments starting from the analysis. First comes the question, then a definition of what good signal looks like. After that, I design controls, plate maps, and QC metrics that make that signal obvious.
University of California, San Francisco
NIH-funded excellence program for researchers in biomedical science. Focused on high-throughput screening and neurodegenerative disease mechanisms.
San Francisco State University | Minor in Computing Applications
Pasadena City College
University of California, San Francisco
Established the peer mentorship framework for the PROPEL post-baccalaureate program. Developed guidance resources to help incoming scholars navigate lab rotations and experimental design.
San Francisco State University | 2021–2022
Mentored 8 students in R programming and bioinformatics. Guided team workflows for gene expression and methylation analysis projects.
San Francisco State University | 2019–2020
Led structured review sessions for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry. Developed problem-solving materials for metabolic pathway analysis.
Presented research findings at ACS National Meeting and The Protein Society.
If you are working on assay-heavy biology and want someone who can think in both pipettes and scripts, I am happy to talk.
