Alison Gilchrist is a research scientist in the High Containment Labs team at the NYU Langone School of Medicine. At NYU, she has studied SARS-CoV-2, the recently developed vaccines, and our immune responses to both. She received her PhD from CU Boulder, where she studied dengue virus, related flaviviruses, and the evolution of the immune system in primates in Sara Sawyer's lab.

Alison is also a writer, podcaster, and occasional book-reviewer. She was the Editor in Chief at Science Buffs, the CU Boulder STEM blog, and a Nerd Nite Boulder organizer. She has written about science and scientific issues, and podcasted about the same with the inimitable Graycen Wheeler on Buffs Talk Science. Alison was once on Science Friday recommending some summer science reads, which was and remains the highlight of her (admittedly minor) book-reviewing career.