Interview with Chris Patil by Jonathan Despres. Go to the Interviews. I'm a molecular and cellular biologist by training. I started out working on DNA repair as an undergrad at Stanford, and then moved on to another cellular stress response for my thesis at UCSF. Right now, as a postdoc in Judy Campisi's group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, I'm working on gene regulatory mechanisms in cellular senescence, a phenomenon that has been implicated in both aging and cancer. No. Regarding specific beliefs, again using the Wikipedia article as a guide: I'd like to be happy. Hey, whatever works.