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==Bio==  
==STS==
===Interests===


* Synthetic Biology


* Cellular Acoustics


* FS/OS and biology
My research focuses on the anthropology of the life sciences.  Broadly, I'm interested in examining how biological systems are increasingly understood by making them.  Currently, I am concerned with how a growing number of amateur and craft practitioners use experimental practice — and sensory engagements with biological materials in particular — to critique and intervene into articulations of knowledge and power governing contemporary experimental sciences.
 
* Bioart
 
 
==Personal==
[[Image:buckhunter.jpg|thumb|right|Target practice.]]
===Bio===
 
I went to high school in Dallas, TX.  At [http://www.rice.edu Rice University], I pursued a degree in anthropology.  My honors thesis, "Exhibiting Life: Biotechnological Media and Materiality in Bioart," examined the artistic use of biological materials to critique the biotechnology industry, offering laypeople with immediate and tactile representations of biotechnical entities.  After graduating in 2003, I began working for [http://xdesign.ucsd.edu Natalie Jeremijenko], writing for the [http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/biotechhobbyist/ Biotech Hobbyist Magazine], doing research for the Feral Robotic Dogs project, and helping organize the Clear Skies project and the OneTree(s)/TwoWheels Bike Tour.
 
I am currently a second year graduate student in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at [http://web.mit.edu/ MIT].  My current research focuses on the anthropology of the contemporary life sciences, specifically biotechnology, bioart, and synthetic biology.  Within these fields, I’m interested in examining biological materials as social, technical, and aesthetic objects.  I am particularly interested in the intersection of biology research with engineering practices, and the influence of the Free Source/Open Software movement on the design and dissemination of engineered biotic systems.  I talk to these guys: [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Synthetic_Society Synthetic Society].  My recent work dealt with the role of Material Transfer Agreements in standardizing and privatizing the exchange of biological materials. In addition to this project, my other current research explores the use of acoustic technologies in biology and nanotech laboratories (sonocytology). I am also interested in the anthropology and philosophy of mathematics.<br>


I am a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the [http://web.mit.edu/hasts/ HASTS Program] at [http://web.mit.edu/ MIT].  You can find my HASTS page [http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/roosth.html here].<br>


==Contact==
==Contact==
'''Phone''': 617.388.9226 <br>
'''Email''': sroosth at mit dot edu.<br>
'''Email''': sroosth at mit dot edu.<br>
'''Postal''':<br>
'''Postal''':<br>
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E51-098<br>
E51-098<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
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Latest revision as of 05:19, 14 May 2010

Bio

My research focuses on the anthropology of the life sciences. Broadly, I'm interested in examining how biological systems are increasingly understood by making them. Currently, I am concerned with how a growing number of amateur and craft practitioners use experimental practice — and sensory engagements with biological materials in particular — to critique and intervene into articulations of knowledge and power governing contemporary experimental sciences.

I am a sixth-year doctoral candidate in the HASTS Program at MIT. You can find my HASTS page here.

Contact

Email: sroosth at mit dot edu.
Postal:
77 Massachusetts Ave.
E51-098
Cambridge, MA 02139

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