Tessa Alexanian likes too many things

I Do Projects

• Catalyst: a collaborative biosecurity summit spearheading a one-day conference on innovation for biological risks
• Abortion Policy API nearly all the code, some of the project management
• East Bay Biosecurity Group meetups about pandemics, information hazards, biohacking, and such
• Effective Altruism Global San Francisco coordinating the volunteers
• iGEM Competition
  • Making websites and answering questions about responsible science with the Human Practices Committee
  • Lurking on e-mail chains about risk assessment for synthetic biology with the Safety & Security Committee
  • Judging the competition (I even won an award for this! and looked like a real dork on camera as a result)
• Truly over-the-top theme parties (check out The Gothic Heist!)

I Give Talks

Life isn't logical! It's hard to put NOR gates in bacteria! !!Con 2019. May 11, 2019. 📹 video
• Is it even legal to inject yourself with CRISPR? East Bay Biosecurity Meetup. February 12, 2019.
• What can biohacking look like in 2018? East Bay Biosecurity Meetup. October 9, 2018. 📹 video
• How biology has changed EA Global San Francisco. 📹 video + 📝 transcipt
• Abortion Access in the Trump Era Nurx HQ Panel. September 17, 2017.

I Write Things

• 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.