Transforming nature is one of four EGN research programmes designed to present scientifically informed and policy-relevant research to key UK and international audiences. This theme focuses on issues relating to the way in which the contemporary life sciences permit novel forms of human intervention in “nature”. Research in this stream examines these approaches to transforming nature – including human nature – and at the same time asks how these changes affect our very idea of what “nature” and “naturalness” are.
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Transgenic Organisms
Christine Hauskeller and Jean Harrington
Sociology, history and epistemology of model organisms
Sabina Leonelli, Rachel A. Ankeny
The Virtual Plant: A history of Arabidopsis thaliana
Sabina Leonelli
A Cultural History of Heredity (2004-2010)
Staffan Mueller-Wille
Public-Private Partnerships & Co-Innovation in Plant Genomics (2009-2010)
Matt Hodges
Genomics in relation to agriculture and development (2004-2008)
Steve Hughes
New Technologies for Agriculture: Interrogating Apomixis (2007-2008)
Matt Hodges
Regulation of Gene Therapy in the UK (2005-2007)
Graciela Nowenstein
Semantic Drift in the Dissemination of Genomics (2002-2007)
Christine Hauskeller
The adoption and deployment of molecular marker assisted breeding technology (2002-2007)
David Reece
The integrity of living beings as a normative concept in bioethics (2004-2006)
Michael Hauskeller
