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Rachel Ankeny

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Janella Baxter

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

Saliha Bayir

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

John Bickle

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

Melinda Bonnie Fagan

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  • 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

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

​Mieke Boon

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

Jane Calvert

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • The Historiography of Biotechnology (2019)

Helen Curry

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

Mathias Grote

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Joyce C. Havstad

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  • ​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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

Robert Meckin

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

Chris Mellingwood

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

Robert Meunier

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  • 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

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​COMING SOON

Tiago Moreira

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

David Munns

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  • 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

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

Nancy Nersessian

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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

Caterina Schürch

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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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

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COMING SOON

Marco Tamborini

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

Sarah Teasley

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

Niki Vermeulen

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  • 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

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

Bill Wimsatt

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Robin Wolfe Scheffler

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

Hanna Lucia Worliczek

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