Christina Mork is a Scientific Curator at Addgene and loves helping turn the gears of science. She received her PhD in microbiology from Boston University and has worked as a staff scientist at the Parkinson's Institute in California.
In 2008 the Quake Lab at Stanford University became interested in exploring biological dark matter – large tracts of the microbial tree of life that remained unexplored. Using new single-cell sequencing approaches, the lab was able to eliminate the need for axenic (pure) ...