Next Saturday (Jan 16), I will be moderating an Awakin Call with Prof. Eva Harris of UC, Berkeley and am collecting questions to ask her. I'd like to request a few minutes of your time to read about her and suggest your top question as a comment to this post.

Eva is a very special scientist, affectionately called the Robin Hood of biotechnology. From this interview in the New York Times:

She takes new discoveries in molecular and biological technology, breaks them down into their simplest forms, figures out ways to replicate them at lower costs and then transfers the information to public health workers in the developing world. [...]

''I see science as a social contract,'' she said over coffee in Berkeley. ''I do it to understand the biological functioning of cells and to understand disease to eradicate it. To me, science is about making a better world.''

For Eva, biology is her way to express her politics, to serve the underprivileged. Her work received great attention after a Macarthur Fellowship, which led to her founding the Sustainable Sciences Institute of San Francisco.

Thank you so much for taking the time to suggest your top question (as a comment to this post).