DR. ALINA CHAN is a postdoctoral researcher with a background in medical genetics, synthetic biology, and vector engineering. At the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Dr. Chan is currently creating next-generation vectors for human gene therapy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she began to investigate problems relevant to finding the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and in parallel spearheaded the development of the COVID-19 CoV Genetics browser (covidcg.org), which allows scientists worldwide to rapidly track virus lineages and mutations by location and date range of interest.
MATT RIDLEY is the award-winning, bestselling author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature; Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters; Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human; Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code; The Rational Optimist; The Evolution of Everything; and How Innovation Works. His books have sold more than one million copies in thirty languages worldwide. He has written for the Wall Street Journal and the Times of London as well as for the Economist. He is a member of the House of Lords and lives in Newcastle and London.
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