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Title: Dr. Job Title: Lecturer in Science & Technology Studies, University of Edinburgh Tel: 0131 651 4745 Fax: Email: emma.frow@ed.ac.uk Building: St John's Land, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ Room Number: 3.05
Emma is on leave for the 2011-2012 academic year as a Fellow in the Program on Science, Technology & Society (STS) at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government - http://sts.hks.harvard.edu/people/current.html
Emma joined the Forum in May 2006, and has an academic background in natural science. She holds a BA in neuroscience from Cambridge University, and completed a PhD in biochemistry in the department of Medicine at Cambridge. Her doctoral research focused on mechanisms of white blood cell migration (chemotaxis) in chronic inflammatory disorders. Before starting at the Forum, Emma spent two years as a subeditor for the scientific journal Nature. She completed an MSc in Science & Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2009.
Articles and Publications
Frow, E. & Yearley, S. (2010) People, Policy and Plant Genomics. In Principles and Practices of Plant Genomics - Volume 3: Advanced Genomics, edited by C. Kole and A. Abbott. New Hampshire: Science Publishers, Inc.
Frow, E.K., Ingram, D., Powell, W., Steer, D., Vogel, J. & Yearley, S. (2009) The Politics of Plants. Food Security 1(1):17-23. doi:10.1007/s12571-008-0007-6
Frow, E.K. (2009) A Forum for 'Doing Society and Genomics'. EMBO Reports 10(4):318-321.
Frow, E.K., Reckless, J. & Grainger, D.J. (2004) Tools for anti-inflammatory drug design: in vitro models of leukocyte migration. Medicinal Research Reviews 24(3), 276–298.
Grainger, D.J. & Frow, E.K. (2000) Thrombospondin 1 does not activate transforming growth factor beta-1 in a chemically defined system or in smooth-muscle-cell cultures. Biochemical Journal 350, 291–298.
Working papers
Frow, E. 'A crisis of trust: questioning the role of images in scientific publications,' Working paper, December 2007
Frow, E. [PDF] ESRC Genomics Forum Working Paper, March 2007.
Frow, E. Genomics, Farming and the Bioeconomy [PDF] ESRC Genomics Forum Working Paper, March 2007.
Frow, E. Genomics for Biodiversity, Conservation and Land Use [PDF] ESRC Genomics Forum Working Paper, November 2006.
Other publications
Frow, E. (2011) 'Looking ahead: Setting standards for biological engineering,' Genomics Network Newsletter, Issue 13, March 2011, p.20
Frow, E. (2010) 'Counterpoint: will synthetic biology change how we value human life?' Genomics Network Newsletter, Issue 10, March 2010, p.27
Frow, E. (2007) 'My working life,' Genomics Network Newsletter, Issue 6, September 2007, p. 31
Recent talks
'Synthetic biology, BioBricks and the engineering of life,' Greenwall workshop on the Constitutional Foundations of Bioethics, Harvard, 10 November 2011'Negotiating knowledge and value in synthetic biology,' workshop on Knowledge/Value: Experimental Biologies and Translational Research, Chicago, 6-7 November 2011'Building Human Practices into synthetic biology,' Annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Cleveland, 2-5 November 2011 (with J. Calvert)'Making big promises come true? Articulating and realizing the value of synthetic biology,' STS Circle Talk, Harvard, 31 October 2011
'A crisis of trust: Setting guidelines for digital image processing in scientific journal articles,' Visualization in the Age of Computerization conference, Oxford, 25-26 March 2011
‘The knowledge-based bioeconomy and the politics of plants,’ ESRC Genomics Network 4th International Conference, OECD Headquarters, Paris, 6–7 December 2010‘Setting standards in synthetic biology’, Workshop on STS Meets Synthetic Biology, Sheffield, 22–23 Nov 2010‘Standards and the Moral Economy of Synthetic Biology,’ Center for Nanotechnology in Society Occasional Seminar, Arizona State University, 26 October 2010
'What's in a Standard? Promises and Problems of Standardization in Synthetic Biology,' The EMBO 2010 Meeting, Barcelona, 4-7 September 2010
While at Harvard for the 2011-2012 academic year, Emma is working on a National Science Foundation (NSF) project with Prof. Sheila Jasanoff and colleagues called "Life in the Gray Zone: Governance of New Biology in Europe and the United States."
At the Genomics Forum, Emma ran an interdisciplinary work programme on Plant Genomics and the Bioeconomy, which comprised a series of workshops, expert meetings, and public events, and has produced a number of publications.
She also coordinated a multidisciplinary Research Council-funded Network in Synthetic Biology (2008-2011). Drawing on her involvement with this network, Emma is currently working on a project to explore the dynamics of standards development in synthetic biology.
Emma's broad research interests include:
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