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A/Prof Swaine Chen received an A.B. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Harvard University in 1996 and an M.D./Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from Stanford University in 2004. He then did a postdoc at Washington University in St. Louis prior to receiving the Singapore National Research Foundation Fellowship and moving to Singapore in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the National University of Singapore and a Group Leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore. His research combines his training in medicine, biology, chemistry, and mathematics to understand how and why bacteria are able to cause infections in humans, using both computational and experimental approaches. In particular, his lab studies urinary tract infections caused by E. coli and foodborne illness caused by Group B Streptococcus, as happened in the yu sheng outbreak in Singapore in 2015; these topics also touch on antibiotic resistance and synthetic biology. He is a strong advocate for general science education and science communication through traditional and social media platforms, and he is committed to ensuring the intellectual training of all who join his lab.