Dr. Change Tan received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. in Organic Chemistry from Nankai University in Tianjin, China, and she also studied as a postdoctoral fellow for the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Tan served as associate professor in the Division of Biological Studies at the University of Missouri before working as a founder and investigator at the Forest of Life Research and Education Center. Tan’s research interests lie in the origin of life and biodiversity, the relationship of organisms, molecular biotechnology method development, reproduction and signal transduction. Tan has written nearly 30 refereed journal articles, including several for the “Answers Research Journal,” and is the co-author of “The Stairway to Life: An Origin-of-Life Reality Check.”