Laura Adam is a co-founder of ebio·ome, and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington. She holds a PhD in Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology from Virginia Tech and a MSc. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from ENSIMAG. She has been developing software for synthetic biologists, informing US governmental agencies on bioinformatics solutions to mitigate biosecurity risks, as well as participating in the synthetic biology open language (SBOL).