Kristine Lang is a professor in and the chair of the Physics Department at Colorado College. In graduate school she studied high-temperature superconductors with scanning tunneling microscopy, receiving her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2001. For the last decade, she has been collaborating with a microbiologist, Phoebe Lostroh, to study the genetic and physical basis of natural transformation in bacteria using atomic force microscopy and bacterial genetics. When not taking pictures of bacteria, Kristine teaches courses across the physics curriculum at Colorado College. In addition, she teaches a course on microbiology and cellular biophysics in collaboration with Phoebe Lostroh of the Microbiology Department and a course on physics and the human body in collaboration with Anthony Bull of the Human Biology and Kinesiology Department. Ever further afield, Dr. Lang also teaches Gender and Science, a course which examines questions such as why there are so few women in science and how science defines gender.