Tessa Alexanian likes too many things

My Deal

Lately I've been focused on steering towards nice futures for biotechnology.

My most recent project was helping to run the iGEM Foundation's Responsibility program, and I'm currently an Ending Bioweapons fellow with the Council on Strategic Risks while figuring out my next full-time project.

Other Projects

• New Science advising an org building new instutitions for the life sciences
• Magnify Mentoring mentoring people interested in effective altruism
• Catalyst: a collaborative biosecurity summit instigated a one-day conference on innovation for biological risks
• Effective Altruism Global San Francisco coordinated the volunteers in 2017, 2018, & 2019
• Abortion Policy API wrote nearly all the code, did some of the project management
• East Bay Biosecurity Group a meetup about pandemics, infohazards, biohacking, and other biosecurity topics (2018-2020)

I Give Talks

• Biosecurity: A Governance Perspective EAGxBerlin. September 17, 2022.
• Synthethic Biology and GCBRs Hear This Idea Podcast. September 21, 2022.
• How do we build a culture of responsible disclosure? Global Community Bio Summit. October 10, 2020.
• Biotech Robotic Cloud Labs: During the Pandemic and Onwards After iGEM Panel. June 20, 2020.
• Life isn't logical! It's hard to put NOR gates in bacteria! !!Con 2019. May 11, 2019.
• How biology has changed EA Global San Francisco. June 9, 2018.

I Write Things

• A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading+ List Effective Altruism Forum, March 2021.
• How to Run A High-Energy Reading Group Effective Altruism Forum, February 2021.
• Habitable Zones L4 Society Zine, December 2020.
• How I Learned to Stop Pipetting and Love the Robots Zymergen Technology Blog, May 2020.
• Inviting the world to participate in synthetic biology. iGEM Digest, January 2020.
• The Case for Modular Lab Automation Zymergen Technology Blog, October 2019.
• Human Practices matters at every stage of your iGEM project iGEM Blog, August 2019.
• Zymergen Technology Team Values Zymergen Technology Blog, March 2019.
• Three Biosecurity Lessons I Learned from iGEM Medium, December 2017.