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Today is the one year anniversary of the Scientific American blog network! Exactly one year ago I was in Liechtenstein on my honeymoon, and this year I'm continuing the European trend by writing this short post while in Greece with my family. To celebrate the occasion, we're all asking readers to de-lurk and share a little bit about themselves in the comments, à la Ed Yong.

Tell me about you. Who are you? Do you have a background in science? If so, what draws you here as opposed to meatier, more academic fare? And if not, what brought you here and why have you stayed? Let loose with those comments.

You of course don't have to use your actual name or anything, not even to register to leave a comment. I'd love to hear from you!

Christina Agapakis is a biologist, designer, and writer with an ecological and evolutionary approach to synthetic biology and biological engineering. Her PhD thesis projects at the Harvard Medical School include design of metabolic pathways in bacteria for hydrogen fuel production, personalized genetic engineering of plants, engineered photosynthetic endosymbiosis, and cheese smell-omics. With Oscillator and Icosahedron Labs she works towards envisioning the future of biological technologies and synthetic biology design.

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