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Holowko, M, Frow, E, Reid, J, Rourke, M and Vickers, C (2020) Building a Biofoundry. Synthetic Biology https://doi.org/10.1093/synbio/ysaa026
Schyfter, P (2020) Knowing Use: An Analysis of Epistemic Functionality in Synthetic Biology. Social Epistemology. Online first.
Bond, M and Scott, D (2020) Digital biopiracy and the (dis)assembling of the Nagoya Protocol. Geoforum. Online first.
Szymanski, E, Bates, N, Cachat, E, Calvert, J, Catts, O, Nelson, L, Rosser, S, Smith, R, Zurr, I (2020) Crossing kingdoms: How can art open up new ways of thinking about science? Frontiers in Bioengineering & Biotechnology doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00715
Kemp, L. […] Scott, D […] Smith, R et al. (2020) Bioengineering horizon scan 2020. Elife, 9, e54489. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54489
Schyfter, P (2020) Gender in synthetic biology: problems and potential. EMBO Reports e49049
Calvert, J and Szymanski, E (2020) A feeling for the (micro)organism? Yeastiness, organism agnosticism and whole genome synthesis. New Genetics and Society 39(4): 385-403.
Hammang, A and Frow, E (2020) Mapping synthetic biology workflows: An experimental workshop Engineering Life workshop report.
Szymanski, E (2020) Constructing Science in Public: Framing Synthetic Yeast in News Media. In Sarah Davies & Ulrike Felt (Eds.), Exploring science communication: A science and technology studies approach. SAGE
Berry, D (2020) Making DNA and its becoming an experimental commodity. History and Technology, Special Issue on Biology and Technology Reframed 35: 374-404.
Marris, C and Calvert, J (2020) Science and technology studies in policy. Science, Technology, & Human Values. 45(1): 34-61.
Smith, R, Scott, D, Kamwendo, Z & Calvert, J (2019) An Agenda for Responsible Research and Innovation in ERA CoBioTech Swindon, UK: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
Szymanski, E, & Scher, E (2019). Models for DNA design tools: The problem with metaphors is that they don't go away. ACS Synthetic Biology. 8(12): 2635-2641.
Szymanski, E.A., Vermeulen, N., & Wong, M. (2019). Yeast: One cell, one reference sequence, many genomes? New Genetics & Society. 38(4), 430-450.
Szymanski, E and Calvert, J (2018) Designing with living systems in the synthetic yeast project. Nature Communications 9 (2950): doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05332-z
Smith, R.D.J and Samuel, G. (2018) Who’s talking about non-human Genome Editing? Mapping public discussion in the U.K. London: Sciencewise.
Szymanski, E. (2018). Remaking yeast: Metaphors as scientific tools in S. cerevisiae 2.0. BioSocieties. doi.org/10.1057/s41292-018-0134-z
Szymanski, E. (2018). Who are the users of synthetic DNA? Using metaphors to activate microorganisms at the center of synthetic biology. Life Sciences, Society, and Policy. 14(15). doi:10.1186/s40504-018-0080-3
Berry, D and Paolo Palladino (2018) Life, Time, and the Organism: Temporal Registers in the Construction of Life Forms. Journal of the History of Biology. 52 (2): 223-243.
Berry, D (2018) Synthesis and the organism: biology, chemistry and engineering. Report on Engineering Life interdisciplinary workshop. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.17137.74088.
Calvert, J (2018) ‘Wedging’ in Lury, C, Clough, P, Chung, U, Fensham, R, Lammes, S, Last, A, Michael, M and Uprichard, E (Eds) Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods London: Routledge
Szymanski, E.A. (2018) What is the terroir of synthetic yeast? Environmental Humanities 10 (1): 40-62.
Scott, Deborah, Berry, Dominic and Calvert, Jane (2018) 'Synthetic Biology', in Sahra Gibbon, Barbara Prainsack, Stephen Hilgartner and Janelle Lamoreaux (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Genomics, Health and Society. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 300-307.
Berry, Dominic (2018) ‘Plants are technologies’, in Jon Agar and Jacob Ward (eds.) Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain. London: UCL Press, pp. 161-185.
Scott, Deborah and Berry, Dominic (2018) Genetic resources in the age of the Nagoya Protocol and gene/genome synthesis. Workshop report of a collaboration between Engineering Life and OpenPlant. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36025.47207.
Kuzma, J., Gould, F., Brown, J., Collins, J., Delborne, J., Frow, E., Esvelt, K., Guston, D., Oye, K. & Stauffer, S. (2018) A roadmap for gene drives: Using institutional analysis and development to frame research needs and governance in a systems context. Journal of Responsible Innovation 5 (Supp.1): 13-39.
Delborne, J., Kuzma, J., Gould, F., Frow, E., Leitschuh, C. & Sudweeks, J. (2018) Mapping research and governance needs for gene drives. Journal of Responsible Innovation 5 (Supp.1): 4-12.
Frow, E.K. (2017) 'Negotiating the values of space exploration.' In Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures, eds E. Finn & J. Eschrich. Center for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University, pp.253-259.
Frow, E (2017) 'From “Experiments of Concern” to “Groups of Concern”: Constructing and Containing Citizens in Synthetic Biology' Science, Technology and Human Values Online First.
Smith, R, Marris, C, Berry, D, Sundaram, L and Rose, N (2017) Synthetic Biology Biosensors for Global Health Challenges. Workshop Report of the Flowers Consortium.
Calvert, J and Schyfter, P (2017) ‘What can Science and Technology Studies learn from art and design? Reflections on Synthetic Aesthetics’ Social Studies of Science 47(2): 195-215.
Schyfter, P (2016) 'Drawing Out by Drawing Into: Representation and Partnership in a Design-Science Collaboration' Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2, 294-311.
Schyfter, P (2016) 'A nature with their nature,' LA+, Fall 2016, 110-117.
Scott, D (2016) 'Framing and responding to scientific uncertainties: Biofuels and synthetic biology at the Convention on Biological Diversity', Jurimetrics 56, 245-260.
Berry, D, Calvert, J, Garcia-Sancho, M and Sturdy, S (2016) ‘Contemporary bioscience and its socio-historical analysis’ EASST Review 35 (3): 14-17.
Balmer, A, Calvert, J, Marris, C, Molyneux-Hodgson, S, Frow, E, Kearnes, M, Bulpin, K, Schyfter, P, Mackenzie, A and Martin, P (2016) ‘Five Rules of Thumb for Post-ELSI Interdisciplinary Collaborations’ Journal of Responsible Innovation 3 (1): 73–80.
Schyfter, P (2016) ‘Function and finitism: A sociology of knowledge approach to proper technology function’ in Philosophy of Technology After the Empirical Turn. London: Springer, pp. 305-325.
Balmer, A, Calvert, J, Marris, C, Molyneux-Hodgson, S, Frow, E, Kearnes, M, Bulpin, K, Schyfter, P, Mackenzie, A and Martin, P (2015) ‘Taking Roles in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Reflections on working in Post-ELSI Spaces in the UK Synthetic Biology Community’ Science and Technology Studies 28 (3): 3-25.
Calvert, J and Frow, E (2015) ‘The synthetic yeast project as a topic for social scientific investigation’ Macquarie Law Review, 15: 27-37.
Evans, SW and Frow, EK (2015) ‘Taking care in synthetic biology’ in Rappert, B & Balmer, B (eds) Absence in Science, Security and Policy: From Research Agendas to Global Strategy. Palgrave Macmillan.
Frow, EK (2015) 'Rhetorics and practices of democratization in synthetic biology' in Weinroth, M and Rodrigues, E (eds) Knowing New Biotechnologies: Social Aspects of Technological Convergence, London: Routledge.
Schyfter, P (2015) 'Metrology and varieties of making in synthetic biology' Standardisation in Measurement: Philosophical and Sociological Issues (Editors: L. Huber and O. Schlaudt), London: Pickering & Chatto.
Schyfter, P and Calvert, J (2015) ‘Intentions, expectations and institutions: engineering the future of synthetic biology in the US and the UK’ Science as Culture 24 (4): 359-383.
Schyfter, P (2015) 'Function by agreement' Social Epistemology, 29(2): 185-206.