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Fall Seminar Series

“Crossing Kingdoms”: Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) via SynBio Art

Zoom Only | Details forthcoming.

Erika Syzmanski, PhD

Associate Professor of Rhetoric of Science at Colorado State University | Profile

Erika Szymanski, PhD, is an associate professor of rhetoric of science in the English department and microbiome cluster at Colorado State University, working primarily in science and technology studies. Following degrees in microbiology, rhetoric, and science communication, she took up a postdoc in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she worked as a social scientist on the synthetic yeast project, studying how efforts to construct a redesigned synthetic genome for brewer’s yeast also reconstructed microbe-human working relationships. She now leads an NSF CAREER project on understanding metaphors for microbiomes as scientific tools for constructing microbiome-based technologies, and as tools for reflecting on the values built into this work.

The Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Colloquium is a seminar series that brings in speakers to present and stimulate discussion on a variety of topics related to existing and proposed biotechnologies and their place within broader societal changes.

GES Colloquium is jointly taught by Drs. Dawn Rodriguez-Ward and Katie Barnhill, who you may contact with any class-specific questions. Colloquium meets weekly on Tuesdays from 12-1 pm via Zoom, with national/international guests joining us remotely, and local in-person guests every other week in the 1911 Building, room 129.

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