Alain Viel

Alain Viel is Director of Undergraduate Research and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He received a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology of Development from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France (Paris VI) and did his postdoctoral work at Harvard. He teaches research-based courses that include projects using gene editing tools. He also teaches courses in molecular biology and biochemistry. He created two on-line courses in collaboration with Harvard X: Principles of Biochemistry and CRISPR: Gene-Editing Applications. He is a founding member of BioVisions at Harvard, a collaboration between scientists, teaching faculty, students, and multimedia professionals that focuses on science visualization. He is the co-author of the award-winning animation series The Inner Life of the Cell.