CellTech - Seattle

Expert-Led Small-Group Workshops For

Wellness & Food & Gut Curious

STEM +
Gut Microbiome Science +
Arts

Learners

GUT MICROBIOME CONSULTING

OUR MISSION
Engineering Curiosity Through the Senses

At CellTech —operating out of the CellTech studio in Ballard, Seattle, Washington USA —our mission is to transform how curious learners experience the world of food, exercise, wellness living, and the gut microbiome by breaking down the walls between science, technology, and the arts. We offer highly focused, various creativity and consulting workshops limited to just four students, ensuring an engaging, hands-on learning environment specifically designed for ages 14 and above.

Created and led by Dr. Johannes (James) Paul Johnson-Martinez (Dr. JJ), a polymathic educator and scientist, the CellTech curriculum is built on a unique foundation of industry and academic expertise. The programming is directly inspired by Dr. Johnson-Martinez’s four years of experience as an R&D Project Manager and Engineer at PepsiCo (the largest food and beverage company in North America, and #2 globally) pioneering novel food chemistry techniques, combined with his internationally acclaimed PhD research at the University of Washington in Bioengineering and Data Science, where he focused on healthy aging, nutrition, and the gut microbiome. He worked under Dr. David Baker (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2025) during his graduate studies and studied at the institute where Dr. Mary Brunkow was awarded her Nobel Prize in Medicine 2025 as well.

Our Wellness Approach

We believe in living by learning and doing. In our studio, participants do not just passively absorb concepts; they actively synthesize them. By seamlessly combining topics involving wellness experiences, culinary and food sciences, coding, art, and gut microbiome science training, we offer workshops that integrate:

practical culinary food science knowledge and gut wellness consultation for daily life
personally-guided workouts with the all-in-one smart gym Tonal machine (liability waiver required) enhanced by Tonal's personal trainers
computational coding in Python for applied data and computer science topics
dietary insights partnered with a certified registered dietitian
wellness field trips to farmer's markets and grocery stores for guided purchasing decision on daily wellness and good supplements and food choices (in Seattle, or with guidance and coordination for other locations)
wellness experiences in relaxing fine art such as sculpture and still life painting/drawing integrated with science topics

all across various dynamic, exciting educational content workshop series that empower the next generation of multidisciplinary innovators.

Read more about Dr. JJ's internationally renowned research published in 2024 in Cell Reports Medicine, which generated over 200 worldwide news articles including CNN, BBC, the TODAY Show, and NBC News. He was also a keynote speaker at the worldwide microbiome conference in Rome, Italy in 2024 (IHMC).