# George Church **Domain:** Genetics / Synthetic Biology / Genome Engineering **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Synthetic Biology]], [[Synthetic Biology|programmable biology]], [[Team Leela]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition **George Church** is a geneticist and bioengineer whose work spans genome sequencing, genome engineering, synthetic biology and the development of technologies for reading and rewriting biological systems. ## Corpus Context Church sits at the biological side of the machine-intelligence continuum: computation does not merely model life but increasingly participates in its redesign. This creates direct interfaces with [[Post-Biological Personhood]], enhancement and biological governance. ## Team Leela Context He appears in [[Team Leela]] as an intellectual and institutional intersection, not as a member of an official group. ## Backlinks [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] · [[Team Leela]] ## Sources / Provenance - [Harvard — George Church](https://hsph.harvard.edu/ala/faculty/george-church/) ## STEVE Routing This node appears in [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] within the article’s scientific, intellectual, or institutional topology. Inclusion records the connection documented in that article; it does not by itself establish official membership in [[Team Leela]], shared intent, or a coordinated program. [[articles/STEVE|STEVE]] · [[Team Leela]] · [[articles/Digital Darwinism and the Invisible World of Machine Evolution|Digital Darwinism]] · [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] · [[articles/The Hawking Continuity|The Hawking Continuity]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]