Muh-Ching (M.C.) has worked as a laboratory researcher at Stanford University in the departments of Genetics, Chemical and Systems Biology, Biology, and most recently, the Carnegie Institution for Science. M.C.’s childhood passion for solving the New York Times crossword has led to her current work playing with the letters of the genetic code in genomics and synthetic biology in human, animal and plant systems. M.C. received a SB in Chemistry at MIT, and a PhD in Chemistry at UC Berkeley, CA. website: www.stanford.edu/~yee