Work in Progress

Conferences and Grants                             Books/ Articles/ Translations  

Conferences Presentations:

  1. •Presentation “Bioethics at the Border of Our Genome: Genetic Engineering and the Human Microbiome”, Genomics and Society - Expending the ELSI Universe, June 2017

  2. •Presentation “Genetic Complexity and Enhancement: Taking Biology Seriously”, Pacific APA, Seattle,  March 2017

  3. •Presentation “Genetic Complexity and Enhancement: Taking Biology Seriously”,Penn State University,  March 2017

  4. •Presentation “Genetic Complexity and Enhancement: Taking Biology Seriously”, What is Life?, University of Oregon (Portland), March 2017

  5. •“Foucault and Deleuze: Notes on War”, at 55th Annual SPEP Meeting, Salt Lake City, October 2016

  6. •“How to Rethink Public Health Ethics Ecologically” (with Jonathan Beever), Annual Meeting American Society for Bioethics and Humanities,  Washington DC,  2016

  7. •Presentation “Bioethical Dilemmas Concerning Microbiome Engineering”, Annual Meeting American Society for Bioethics and Humanities,  Washington DC,  2016

  8. •Presentation “Our Microbes are us: The Conceptual Ecology of the Human Microbiome”, Philosophy of Biology Research Group Oregon (inaugural meeting), Reed College, September 2016

  9. •Presentation “Using Evolution to Engineer Microbiomes”, (Re)engineering Biology conference, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, April 15-16, 2016

  10. •Presentation “Biological Complexity and the Human Microbiome: Integration and Therapeutic Translation in Medicine”, University of Hamburg, 2016

  11. •Presentation “Foucault and Deleuze on War”, at Foucault and Deleuze’s Political Philosophy, Purdue University, November 2015

  12. •Presentation “Desire and Pleasure: Deleuze and Foucault’s Readings of W. Reich” at “Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity,     Universalism, Politics”, December 2015, American University in Beirut, Lebanon

  13. •Presentation “Our Microbes are Us: A Conceptual Ecology of the Human Microbiome” at Central Oregon College, October 2015, Bend, OR

  14. •Presentation “Be Pluralists! A 2nd Manifesto for Microbial Biologists” with Brendan Bohannan at the SRPoiSE Annual Meeting, Michigan State University, March 2015

  15. •Biodiversity at Twenty-Five - Lecture series “Diversity in Ecological Systems: Genes, Species, and Beyond”, Penn State University, January 2014

  16. •Presentation “A Critical Argument for a Principle of Minimal Biological Realism in Bioethics” at SRPoiSE conference, University of Waterloo, June 2014

  17. •Presentation “What if there are no individuals? Microbial Biology and Environmental Ethics” with Brendan Bohannan at the Eastern APA (ISEE Session), Baltimore, December 2013 and at IAEP’s Annual Meeting, Eugene, October 2013

  18. •Implicit Cognition and Gifts: How does Social Psychology Help us Thinking Differently about the Medical Practice? with Natalia Washington at Rock Ethics Institute Fellows Seminar, Sept.  2013 and at Meeting of the Association for Practical & Professional Ethics, March 2014

  19. •  Presentation “Interactions: Science, Values, (Bio)politics”, SRPoiSE, Michigan State University,

    August, 2013

  1. •  Presentation “A Critical Argument for a Principle of Minimal Biological Realism in Bioethics” at

   The Hastings Center, September, 2012

  1. •  Presentation “From Science to Environmental Value: An Argument for a Critical Understanding   

  of the Normative Role of Biodiversity” (with B. Bohannan  & T. Toadvine) at at IAEP’s Annual 

  Meeting, Rochester, November, 2012 and at the Eastern APA (ISEE Session), Atlanta, 

  December, 2012

  1. •  A Critical Argument Against a Value Bias in Biomedicine with Jonathan Beever at
    Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference, UT -Dallas, May 2013

  2. •  Presentation “Deleuze and Foucault: The Pleasure-Desire Problem” at Between Deleuze and Foucault, Nov. 30 - Dec. 1 2012, Purdue University and 52nd SPEP Meeting, Eugene OR, October 24-26

  3. •  Presentation “Between Foucault and Deleuze: Wilhelm Reich” at Michel Foucault 2014: Beyond Sexuality, Hofstra University, March 27-28, 2014

  4. •  Presentation “Between Science and Ethics” at The Hastings Center, Sept. 2012

  5. • Presentation “Human Nature and Biology”, The Undergraduate Philosophy Club, May 2012, University of Oregon

  6. •  Presentation “For a Pluralistic Understanding of Ourselves: Human Nature and Biology” at ‘What is Pluralism?’ Conference, May 2012, University of Oregon

  7. •  Invited - Ambassador Award at Quest for Research Excellence in Washington D.C.,
    Office of Research Integrity, March 15-16, 2012



Organizer:

  1. 1.Panel Organizer “Philosophy of Biology Meets Bioethics”, Pacific APA 2017
    Participants: Allen Buchanan, Russell Powell, Anya Plutynski, Sean Valles

  2. 2.Oregon Philosophy of Biology Research Group (with Mark Bedau), September 2016
    Participants: Jay Odenbaugh, Bryan Cwik, Mark Bedau, Nicolae Morar

  3. 3.Who are We? Humans, Microbes, and Their Interactions (workshop) Aug 2nd, Eugene Interdisciplinary workshop with Brendan Bohannan, Stephen Dueppen, Jane Foster,    Nada Gligorov, Maureen O’Malley, Makmiller Pedroso, and Michael Travisano
    (    following the META meeting)

  4. 4.Foucault and Deleuze’s Political Philosophy (conference) with D.W. Smith and T.Nail
    13 November - 14 November 2015, Purdue University

  5. 5.What is SRPoiSE?” (2 panels), Eastern Conference of the A.P.A., December 2014

  6. 6.“Enriching Philosophy of Science through Collaborative and Feminist Approaches ” (panel), Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting, November 2014

  7. 7.Between Deleuze and Foucault (conference) with Daniel W. Smith and Thomas Nail
    30 November - 1 December 2012, Purdue University

  8. 8.Foucault and Deleuze: Ethics, Politics, and Psychoanalysis (Plenary Panel)
    Commentator and Panel Organizer with Thomas Nail and Daniel W Smith,
    Deleuze Studies Conference, New Orleans, June 25-27, 2012