Joana Formosinho

Joana Formosinho
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  • Master of Science
  • Interdisciplinary Research Fellow at University of Edinburgh

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Introduction
Researcher within Science and Technology Studies (STS). Social and cultural dimensions of the biological sciences. Social studies of microbes. Synthetic biology. Holobiont. Multispecies societies. Artscience and interdisciplinary methods. Collaborate, experiment, reflect.
Current institution
University of Edinburgh
Current position
  • Interdisciplinary Research Fellow

Publications

Publications (4)
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The Critical Zones project is a multipronged intervention toward what it calls earthly politics—transforming human engagement with Earth’s processes. The project centers on an exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany—an institution known for its experiments in culture-making at the intersection of art, science, and politics...
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Microbiome research shows that human health is foundationally intertwined with the ecology of microbial communities living on and in our bodies. This challenges the categorical separation of organisms from environments that has been central to biomedicine, and questions the boundaries between them. Biomedicine is left with an empirical problem: how...
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How does microbiota research impact our understanding of biological individuality? We summarize the interdisciplinary summer school on “Microbiota, symbiosis and individuality: conceptual and philosophical issues” (July 2019), which was supported by a European Research Council starting grant project “Immunity, DEvelopment, and the Microbiota” (IDEM...
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Alternative mating tactics are found in many species, and may have important implications for population genetics and speciation. The existence of such alternative mating tactics is well-documented in the three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus, and sneaking and egg-stealing may occur in a significant proportion of matings under natural con...

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