# 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/)