Rachel Ankeny

publications

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Janella Baxter

publications

• How Biological Technology Should Inform the Causal Selection Debate (2019) 
• CRISPR-Cas Changing Biology? (2019)

Saliha Bayir

publications

• PhD project undertaken as part of the Forms of Practice project. ​

John Bickle

publications

• Laser Lights and Designer Drugs: New Techniques for
  Descending Levels of Mechanisms “in a Single Bound”? (2020)​
• Linking Mind to Molecular Pathways: The Role
  of Experiment Tools (2019)
• Revolutions in Neuroscience:
  Tool Development (2016)

Melinda Bonnie Fagan

publications

• Organoids: A vital thread in a generative fabric of models (forthcoming 2020)​
• Stem cells and nanomaterials as experimental kinds (2019)
• Stem cells and systems models: clashing views of explanation (2016)
  

Thomas Bonnin

publications

• Review: Roosth, Synthetic: How Life Got Made (2018)

​Mieke Boon

publications

• Epistemology for interdisciplinary research – shifting philosophical paradigms of science (2019)
• Interdisciplinary expertise in medical practice: Challenges of using and producing knowledge in complex problem-solving (2019)
• An engineering paradigm in the biomedical sciences: Knowledge as epistemic tool (2017)

Terry Bristol

publications

• The Philosophy of Engineering and the Engineering Worldview (2018)
• The Engineering Knowledge Research Program (2018)
• Give Space My Love: An Intellectual Odyssey with Dr. Stephen Hawking (2016)

Julia Bursten

publications

• Perspectives on Classification in Synthetic Sciences: Unnatural Kinds (2019)
• Smaller than a Breadbox: Scale and Natural Kinds (2018)
• Reconciling Physical and Biological Metaphysics of Structure Comments on Waters, “How Science Can Inform Metaphysics: Insights from Biological Practice" (2016)

Brett Calcott

publications

• Engineering and Biology: Counsel for a Continued Relationship (2015)
• ​Engineering and Evolvability (2014)

Jane Calvert

publications

• Designing with living systems in the synthetic yeast project (2019)
• Intentions, expectations and institutions: engineering the future of synthetic biology in the US and the UK (2015)
• “Can simple biological systems be built from standardized interchangeable parts?” Negotiating biology and engineering in a synthetic biology competition (2013)

Luis Campos

publications

• Strains of Andromeda: The Cosmic Potential Hazards of Genetic Engineering (2021) 
• Outsiders and In-Laws: Drew Endy and the Case of Synthetic Biology (2013)
• The Biobrick™ Road (2012)

Berris Charnley

publications

• Geneticists on the Farm: agriculture and the all-English loaf (2016)
• with Charles Lawson (eds) Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms: A Convergence in Laws (2015) 
• Experiments in empire-building: Mendelian genetics as a national, imperial, and global agricultural enterprise (2013)

Nathan Crowe

publications

• The Historiography of Biotechnology (2019)

Helen Curry

publications

• From Bean Collection to Seed Bank: Transformations in Heirloom Vegetable Conservation, 1970–1985 (2019)
• Evolution Made to Order: Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America (2016)
• ​From Garden Biotech to Garage Biotech: Amateur Experimental Biology in Historical Perspective (2014)

Mike Dietrich

publications

• From New Alchemy To Living Machines:  John Todd’s Dreams of Ecological Engineering (2018)
• Experimenting with Sex:  Four Approaches to the Genetics of Sex Reversal before 1950 (2016)

Elihu Gerson

publications

• Reach, Bracket, and the Limits of Rationalized Coordination: Some Challenges for CSCW (2008)
• Specialty Boundaries, Compound Problems, and Collaborative Complexity (2009)
• Integration of specialties: An institutional and organizational view (2013)

Sara Green

publications

• Philosophy of Systems and Synthetic Biology (2017)
• Design sans adaptation (2015)
• Can biological complexity be reverse engineered? (2015)

Mathias Grote

publications

• Membranes to molecular machines. Active matter and the remaking of life (2019)
• Petri’s dish versus Winogradsky’s column. A longue durée perspective on purity and diversity in microbial classification (2018)
• Das Patchwork der Mikroben. Bio-Technologien, Leben und Wissenschaft jenseits der großen Erzählungen (2016)

Gill Haddow

publications

• Animal, Mechanical and Me: Organ Transplantation and the Ambiguity of Embodiment (2020)
• Implantable Smart Technologies (IST): Defining the 'Sting' in Data and Device (2016)
• Cyborgs in the Everyday: Masculinity and Biosensing Prostate Cancer (2015)

Brian Hanley

publications

Joyce C. Havstad

publications

• ​Let me tell you ‘bout the birds and the bee-mimicking flies and Bambiraptor (2019)
• Messy Chemical Kinds (2017)
• Human reproductive cloning: A conflict of liberties (2010)

Catherine Kendig

publications

• Synthetic kinds: kind-making in synthetic biology (2019)
• Reengineering metaphysics: modularity, parthood, and evolvability in metabolic engineering (2017)
• ​What is proof of concept research and how does it generate epistemic and ethical categories for future scientific practice? (2016)

Rami Koskinen

publications

• Multiple realizability and biological modality (2019)
• Multiple realizability as a design hypothesis in biological engineering (2019)
• Synthetic biology and the search for alternative genetic systems: Taking how-possibly models seriously (2017)

Tarja Knuuttila

publications

• Biological Control Variously Materialized: Modeling, Experimentation and Exploration in Multiple Media (2021)
• Epistemic artifacts and the modal dimension of modeling (2021)
• Modelling and representing: An artefactual approach to model-based representation (2011)

Victoria Lee

publications

• Microbial Transformations: The Japanese Domestication of Penicillin Production, 1946-1951 (2018)
• The Microbial Production of Expertise in Meiji Japan (2018)
• ​Mold Cultures: Traditional Industry and Microbial Studies in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (2015)

Dan Liu

publications

• The Artificial Cell, the Semipermeable Membrane, and the Life that Never Was, 1864–1901 (2019)
  
• Heads and Tails: Molecular Imagination and the Lipid Bilayer, 1917–1941 (2018)
• Review:  This is the synthetic biology that is (2018)

Andrea Loettgers

publications

• Varieties of noise: Analogical reasoning in synthetic biology (2014)
• Synthetic Modeling and Mechanistic Account: Material Recombination and Beyond (2013)
• Causal isolation robustness analysis: the combinatorial strategy of circadian clock research (2011)

Alan Love

publications

• Individuation, Individuality, and Experimental Practice in Developmental Biology (2018)
• Opinion: Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry (2018)
• Perspectives on Integrating Genetic and Physical Explanations of Evolution and Development: An Introduction to the Symposium (2017)

Jane Maienschein

publications

• Changing Ideas about Cells as Complex Systems​ (2018)
• Embryos Under the Microscope: The Diverging Meanings of Life (2014)

Robert Meckin

publications

• Everyday Uncertainty Work: Making Sense of Biosynthetic Menthol (2018)
• Making Research Translatable: Articulating and Shaping Synthetic Biology in the UK (2016)

Chris Mellingwood

publications

• Amphibious Researchers: working with laboratory automation in synthetic biology (2018)

Robert Meunier

publications

• Pluralization through epistemic competition: scientific change in times of data-intensive biology (2019)
• Project knowledge and its resituation in the design of research projects: Seymour Benzer's behavioral genetics, 1965-1974 (2018)
• Interdisciplinarity in Philosophy of Science (2014)

Koichi Mikami

publications

​COMING SOON

Tiago Moreira

publications

• Between truth and hope: on Parkinson’s disease, neurotransplantation and the production of the ‘self’ (2005)

David Munns

publications

• To live among the stars: artificial environments in the early space age (2018)
• Engineering the Environment: Phytotrons and the Quest for Climate Control in the Cold War (2017)
• The Suffix That Tells the Story of Modern Science (2017)

Dmitriy Myelnikov

publications

• Cuts and the cutting edge: British science funding and the making of animal biotechnology in 1980s Edinburgh (2017)

Nancy Nersessian

publications

• Interdisciplinarities in action: Cognitive ethnography of bioengineering sciences research laboratorie (2019)​
• Hybrid devices: Embodiments of culture in biomedical engineering (2017)
• Science as Psychology: Sense-making and Identity in Science Practice (2011)

Alfred Nordmann

publications

• Enhancing Machine Nature: From the Myth of the Machine to Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Nonmechanical Machines'​ (2016)
• Synthetic Biology at the Limits of Science (2015)
• Enhancing Material Nature (2010)

Lisa Onaga

publications

• Measuring the particular: Low-dose Exposure to Radiation as Event and Experiment in the Genba (2018)
• Ray Wu as “Fifth Business”: Deconstructing Collective Memory in the History of DNA Sequencing (2014)

Dan Santos

publications

• PhD thesis: Democratizing Biotechnology?' Biohacking Life in Community Science Labs

Caterina Schürch

publications

• Understanding Past Research Practice: A Case for iHPS (2019)
• How mechanisms explain interfield cooperation: biological–chemical study of plant growth hormones in Utrecht and Pasadena, 1930–1938 (2017)

Pablo Schyfter

publications

• Metrology and varieties of making in synthetic biology (2015)
• How a 'drive to make' shapes synthetic biology (2013)
• Propellers and promoters: Emerging engineering knowledge in aeronautics and synthetic biology (2013)

Massimiliano Simons

publications

• Dreaming of a Universal Biology: Synthetic Biology and the Origins of Life (2021)
• Synthetic Biology as a Technoscience: The Case of Minimal Genomes and Essential Genes​ (2021)
• The Diversity of Engineering in Synthetic Biology (2020)

Rob Smith

publications

• An Agenda for Responsible Research and Innovation in ERA CoBioTech (2019)
• A mobilising concept? Unpacking academic representations of responsible research and innovation (2017)

Alok Srivastiva

publications

All in preparation:

• The Works of Synthesis in The Chemical and Biological sciences Depend on Working Out the Making-Histories of Material Entities
• Cell Engineering Scientists Generate Unnatural Kinds of Signaling Circuits within Cells by Making and Re-making their Making-Histories
• Making Wholes to Understand Them - The Application of Chemistry’s ‘Total Synthesis’ Practices to Genes & Genomes

Yuki Sugawara

publications

COMING SOON

Marco Tamborini

publications

• Technoscientific Approaches to Deep Time (2019)
• Umwelt und organische Form: Technowissenschaftlicher Zugang zur Historizität der Evolution (2019)

Sarah Teasley

publications

• Problem Solutions: Animal Glues in Laboratories and Workshops (in process)
  

Niki Vermeulen

publications

• Do Synthesis Centers Synthesize? A semantic analysis of diversity and performance (2019)
• 3D bioprint me: a socioethical view of bioprinting human organs and tissues (2017)
• Bio-Objects: Life in the 21st Century (2012)

Sam Weiss Evans

publications

• Embrace experimentation in biosecurity governance (2020)
• Anomaly handling and the politics of gene drives (2018)
• Taking care in synthetic biology (2015)

Bill Wimsatt

publications

Robin Wolfe Scheffler

publications

• X-Ray Crystallography of Biomaterials (2020)
• Managing the Future: The Special Virus Leukemia Program and the Acceleration of Biomedical Research (2014)

Hanna Lucia Worliczek

publications