Academic Background: Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies, MIT, 2000.
Research Interests: Social and historical study of biotechnology, focusing on metabolism, epigenetics, and science-society interactions.
Appointments: Professor of Sociology and Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA.
Publications: Author of Culturing Life: How Cells Became Technologies (Harvard University Press, 2007).
Additional Contributions: Co-director, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics.