User:Sawylie

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Interests

 * Understanding the role of synethic chemicals in contemporary society from biological laboratories to agriculture


 * Enabling the design, and construction of teaching tools for interventionist STS


 * Researching the historical relationship between chemistry and biology


 * Studying man-made environments and organisms

Current Projects
history of synthetic chemical industry

social implications of endocrine disruption

developing teaching tools for interventionist STS in order to make visible persistant, synthetic chemicals

anthroplogy of the senses--focusing on smell, particularly the detection of hydrocarbons

Publications
ummm...working on that

Papers of Interest
ummm...working on that

Bio
I emigrated to the U.S. from England in 1994, on my 14th birthday. I attended highschool in Edina Minneasota and went to the University of Chicago for my undergraduate degree. It was in Chicago, after working in the bowels of a transgenic mouse house, that I was side tracked by STS. I cobbled together a program in STS by combining history of science, anthropology, biology, chemistry, art and some philosophical type stuff. I also studied in South Africa and Rome. I graduated phi beta kappa (which is not, it turns out, a sorority). After college I worked for two years in a cell biology lab at Harvard Medical School Ruderman Lab where i refined my interests in anthropology of biology and picked up an interest in endocrine disruption. Since starting at MIT in 2005 I have written on various topics from Boston University's BSL4, the Irish Potato Famine, the Avian Flu and the history of the synthetic chemical industry. In keeping with my penchant for biological disasters I'm currently investigating the history of the synthetic chemical industy and the oil/gas industry focusing on the discovery of endocrine disruption. Recently i have begun enthnographic work with the Endocrine Disruption Exchange Network and Theo Colborn author of Our Stolen Future in Paonia, Colorado. I am also working with and funded by MIT's Program on Emerging Technologies. We are currently investigating the implications of ubiquitous computing and synthetic biology.

Contact
Phone: 773.495.9090 Email: my username is sawylie... and the server is mit.edu... you can figure out the rest. Postal: PGP Key: -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: PGP 8.0.3 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com mQGiBEBh/jcRBAD6M0Zd6Bd5ePlzGwHz67NOcZUnMOP6Hixp/6N1pVo3dU8Kfmwe ZE6usfGDgPfqd5YSuMJfmDZWbsWhiF2f1WGuGyiuhQY/lTfxOf2sII5RCboqFJy+ YlaTFy7kphiji6qKoCUmMrLLiL33bOAudADHUyvpIfALVsvvJM64PKp5AwCg/4A8 GrKTtjPfs80hqnlakIsdRJ8D/jt8qwWEUY5fLK5DrlwcRFMwn1vJFv2Bl6/IBCQa T41v7MKma1EXzYWym7hyOH9IwC7YYUYzEsu1je7KeiIKvwTMgfEOBrc5J9y/7bXz PU2z/Y4rlGOMb/I6ww+URhreBCVpmMbdhAUFRx3t5Nqx3Zn//A0CT3KSctWFQj06 m9C4BADK3++94IAxXqfb8gIAS+gGPj4NJ5T99ZnNdGF2YIAdZ71SCkRnqGZbjey0 xiGfvQ4ph9uzocCNHRFmGjAupqRccgbnUlgLwD36GTkeLMmlKBTdpTz+cqux1trq O3erau1uUEFEDAuB3lYKfcrp5fOF1x8dTVklZ3g9dporpv3f5LQfU3JpcmFtIEtv c3VyaSA8c2tvc3VyaUBtaXQuZWR1PokAXQQQEQIAHQUCQGH+NwUJA8JnAAcLCQgH AwIKAhkBBRsDAAAAAAoJEDX3Sb9719Ja/08AoPLfDC/yXbdPjF1lyO2sX9VJiK7G AKDD4JOE3SONsHK9GJoD2KTn12w48rkEDQRAYf43EBAA+RigfloGYXpDkJXcBWyH huxh7M1FHw7Y4KN5xsncegus5D/jRpS2MEpT13wCFkiAtRXlKZmpnwd00//jocWW IE6YZbjYDe4QXau2FxxR2FDKIldDKb6V6FYrOHhcC9v4TE3V46pGzPvOF+gqnRRh 44SpT9GDhKh5tu+Pp0NGCMbMHXdXJDhK4sTw6I4TZ5dOkhNh9tvrJQ4X/faY98h8 ebByHTh1+/bBc8SDESYrQ2DD4+jWCv2hKCYLrqmus2UPogBTAaB81qujEh76DyrO H3SET8rzF/OkQOnX0ne2Qi0CNsEmy2henXyYCQqNfi3t5F159dSST5sYjvwqp0t8 MvZCV7cIfwgXcqK61qlC8wXo+VMROU+28W65Szgg2gGnVqMU6Y9AVfPQB8bLQ6mU rfdMZIZJ+AyDvWXpF9Sh01D49Vlf3HZSTz09jdvOmeFXklnN/biudE/F/Ha8g8VH MGHOfMlm/xX5u/2RXscBqtNbno2gpXI61Brwv0YAWCvl9Ij9WE5J280gtJ3kkQc2 azNsOA1FHQ98iLMcfFstjvbzySPAQ/ClWxiNjrtVjLhdONM0/XwXV0OjHRhs3jMh LLUq/zzhsSlAGBGNfISnCnLWhsQDGcgHKXrKlQzZlp+r0ApQmwJG0wg9ZqRdQZ+c fL2JSyIZJrqrol7DVes91hcAAgIP/0ywIXwh1hYpVE5EbG/0HFP8mSZ+UrKGostS soZr5lUC0TzfTU8YVYLNH/gA4QDqlir3MCaAeUS5wQShCpiPxQO9sE3nlLsk4Bbg KuCGh4Lm4sHJfMBMGwJXVwb/1VqU4qHp58mGeXLfccrtxcnhfqsg3o0TRPqVAOkg u6hy6p3prZSym+3ZS4QIVLUN/ja2D0cajRzONhR0gcgCwAMVoUlZoKiXs/nTBxbz JZNgUJTr4k/GZF1NGhDtrC6QH1a9u44/tLo/4oXsueyFqvI71W5Ok/NI5mANAiPj 6/VYNJcqwyc2DWPtToEQApCxrTDX/3jKs5bSS8UFhWwAO8q56KJI4AwnxQP/QsRI LbNg87nowCYS731GPF5D6ky+IW3X/5rMUbcvsMYieMEO71sfEzTU7k19I6XP5Iqq 24SBSxRQxWpRwS9FzWowlwHivS6mReSE1jwrlVEONsKIftFGc7IS4xJNulqh/ZkU dPIooIBeWOfCPb2h2EBPq7IsU6B0y4UIQLIf9i0lTaZ2oIFsjIPQplIvPmstUtUs 7wS7MutWqFikTdmiPjQ6MQ6gYzOHsGlg/MKA8cAJUDQFGK/pT8Jh5YlmP319fq4T fI4fH/OeA9CSlkJ6fnCG1tNmgm7Ozz+RFCFnSxb2ahrDYo2ArmAobsuFym1uy3jy 7wCayapziQBSBBgRAgASBQJAYf43BQkDwmcABRsMAAAAAAoJEDX3Sb9719Ja0KUA oObxHxfl+6/pt3LqLDBz0bwtFUbmAJ9RU+BewLIVD3itGK46XnVCtl3g/g== =xfzP -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-