Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20-base-pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells.

As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.