Ezequiel (Zeke) Alvarez Saavedra, PhD, is a cofounder at miniPCR and at Genes in Space. Zeke is a geneticist trained at MIT and Stanford. He has conducted biomedical research alongside two Nobel laureates, and his work has been cited thousands of times and profiled in national and international media such as the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the BBC. He is also an inventor of gene-detection technologies. In his spare time, Zeke digs soil in search of new species (one so far!) He can be reached via email at zeke@minipcr.com.