Virulence profile: Laura Manuelidis.

I grew up in Brooklyn during WWII and freely roamed the streets, spoke to a vast assortment of people, and slipped into the movies underage where they were playing concentration camps, the atom bomb and Superman. I alternately dreamed of becoming a classical dancer and a champion for the oppressed. The fabric of our abode was filled with diverse people, literature and architecture. The latter meant endless walks around construction sites before finally getting to swim at Coney Island. Little did I know that architecture would provide the cement and steel for my later appreciation of biologic structures from different perspectives.