Karen Ingram is a creative director, designer, and artist who uses her skill set to promote scientific awareness. She has a keen interest in the field of synthetic biology. As a Synthetic Biology LEAP fellow, she is recognized as an emerging leader. Karen co-authored “Biobuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab” (O’Reilly, 2015).

At present, she is working with the d.school at Stanford University to create teaching tools for synthetic biology. She teaches “Synthetic Biology for Creatives” at Genspace and has served as a judge at iGEM.