What It’s Like to Work with George Church | Adam Marblestone

What’s it really like to work in one of the most innovative biology labs in the world?

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In this clip, Adam Marblestone, neuroscientist and founder of Convergent Research, shares what it was like doing his PhD under George Church — the legendary Harvard geneticist whose lab helped pioneer DNA sequencing, gene editing, and synthetic biology.

Marblestone reflects on how Church encouraged “thinking at scale,” constantly pushing students to make their ideas a thousand times more ambitious — whether in DNA nanotechnology, self-assembling molecular chips, or early projects that helped shape the BRAIN Initiative. He also describes the lab’s radically interdisciplinary culture, where physicists, chemists, and biologists worked side-by-side to invent new tools for neuroscience.

From molecular “ticker-tape” neural recording to the origins of large-scale neurotech, this conversation offers a rare inside look at how Church’s mentorship style shaped a generation of scientists — and why ambition and collaboration remain the real drivers of discovery.

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