Christina Agapakis
Christina Agapakis is an extremely interdisciplinary synthetic biologist working to build more creative and human futures for biotechnology. During her time in academia and a decade at Ginkgo Bioworks, she has built organisms, brands, teams, products, and cultures across the bioeconomy and biosecurity, started two magazines, engineered photosynthetic animals, launched a Biodesign store, resurrected the smell of extinct flowers, put a T-Rex on the NY stock exchange, made COVID testing available for millions of American students, and made cheese with the bacteria from human skin, among other projects. Today, she lives with an anthropologist and a menagerie of children and greyhounds in Somerville, MA and is the founder of Oscillator, a creative consultancy supporting people developing new tools for understanding and designing biology.
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