ISG professor Dr. Hannah Landecker‘s paper “Food as exposure: Nutritional epigenetics and the new metabolism” is now available to read online at Biosocieties
ISG Assistant Professor Dr. Aaron L. Panofsky has published new paper entitled “Field Analysis and Interdisciplinary Science: Scientific Capital Exchange in Behavior Genetics“. Abstract: This paper uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory to develop tools for analyzing interdisciplinary scientific fields. Interdisciplinary fields are scientific spaces where no single form of scientific capital has a monopoly and therefore multiple forms of scientific capital constitute…
Mark Leach, J.D., published an article called “My Daughter’s Paradoxical Genes” detailing the seemingly paradoxical case of the ethical considerations arising from his daughter Juliet’s genes. Specifically, he examines the moral paradox of medical guidelines for Juliet’s two genetic conditions of Trisomy 21 and Double X: for one, prenatal testing is considered an ethical obligation and for the other prenatal…
ISG Associate Director Jessica Lynch Alfaro was an invited speaker at the UCLA/Sloan Colloquium at the UCLA Film School this Saturday, October 22. Lynch Alfaro presented a talk on ‘Genetic Research in Societal Contexts’ to UCLA screenwriting and production students who are interested in incorporating accurate portrayals of science and scientists into their films. The Sloan Foundation provides awards for…
ISG Postdoctoral Fellow Sharlene Santana, faculty affiliate Michael Alfaro, undergrad apprentice Thomas Dial, and University of Massachusetts PhD candidate Thomas Eiting published a new paper on their research, entitled “Roosting Ecology and the Evolution of Pelage Markings in Bats” Abstract: Multiple lineages of bats have evolved striking facial and body pelage makings, including spots, stripes and countershading. Although researchers have…
ISG’s Associate Director, Jessica Lynch Alfaro is a co-author on a Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution article, “Pleistocene diversification of living squirrel monkeys (Saimiri spp.) inferred from complete mitochondrial genome sequences“. The article discusses the very recent divergence of squirrel monkeys, as inferred by complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Abstract: In order to enhance our understanding of the evolutionary history of squirrel monkeys (Saimiri spp.), we…