Our members and affiliates have presented innovative research to interdisciplinary audiences around the world.
Collins, James
2022 (Nov) History of Science Society. “History for the Future: Regeneration in a Complex World.” Chicago, IL. (Speaker)
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Ecosystem Regeneration.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2020 (Feb) (speaker and session organizer) w/ Frederick R. Davis, “Ecosystem Regeneration,” Regeneration Workshop, Indianapolis, IN
Davis, Frederick R.
2022 (Nov) History of Science Society. “History for the Future: Regeneration in a Complex World.” Chicago, IL. (Speaker)
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Ecosystem Regeneration.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2020 (Feb) (speaker and session organizer) w/ Jim Collins, “Ecosystem Regeneration,” Regeneration Workshop, Indianapolis, IN
2019 (Jul) (speaker and session organizer), “Implications of Shifting Baselines for Species Recovery and Ecosystems Regeneration,” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Oslo, Norway
2019 (May) (speaker and organizer) w/ John Huss, “Refaunation in the Florida Keys and Krakatoa,” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Woods Hole, MA
De Sio, Fabio
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Neuron Regeneration.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2021 (July) (w/ Pamela Imperadore) “Deciphering regeneration through non‐model animals: A century of experiments on cephalopod mollusks and an outlook at the future,” Traditional Session: “Aquatic Organisms, regeneration, and the utility of ‘non-traditional’ model species” (Chair and organizer: Kathryn Maxson Jones), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
2020 (Sept) (Paper presenter) “Centre and Periphery: Early Regeneration Experiments on cephalopods,” part of Panel: “Cephalopod Regeneration: Past, present, and future” (Organizer: Pamela Imperadore), Biology and Life History of Cephalopods. Behavior, cognition, evolution, ecology, fisheries, genomics, neuroscience, taxonomy,” an interim meeting of the international cephalopod community, CephRes2020 Virtual Event, Naples, Italy
2019 (Oct) “Neurons in context: Neuronal regeneration and disciplinary struggles in the first half of the XX Century,” Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
2019 (May) “European regeneration research in vertebrates, 1900-1945,” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Woods Hole, MA
Doolittle, W. Ford
2021 (July) Diverse format Session, “Reconsidering Gaia” (Chair: S. Andrew Inkpen), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
Fangerau, Heiner M.
2021 (July) “Democratizing methods? Rhoda Erdmann (1870-1935) and the penumbra of early tissue culture research,” Traditional session: “Regeneration from cells to limbs” (Chair: Heiner Fangerau, Organizer: Kathryn Maxson Jones), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
Gazave, Eve
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Stem Cell Regeneration.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2020 (Oct) “Posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii (invited speaker),” 1st Platynereis virtual meeting, online.
2019 (Nov) “Posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii (invited speaker),” Roscoff Marine station, France.
2019 (Oct) “Posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii,” Cost Meeting, Aquatic research models to study regeneration and aging, Nice, France.
2019 (Oct) “Posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii” (invited speaker), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.2019 (Sept) “Posterior regeneration in the annelid Platynereis dumerilii (invited speaker),” Villefranche sur mer Marine station, LBDV, France.
Guerrero, Anna
2019 (Jul) “How Images Shape the Concept of Regeneration in Microbial Communities,” ISHPSSB, Oslo, Norway
Huss, John
2019 (May) (speaker and organizer) w/ Fritz Davis, “Refaunation in the Florida Keys and Krakatoa,” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Woods Hole, MA
Inkpen, S. Andrew
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Microbial Community Regeneration.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2021 (July) Diverse format session, “How can living systems persist: Regeneration, failure, and the future” (Chair: Susan Fitzpatrick), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
2021 (Apr) Invited Lecture, “What We’re Talking About When We’re Talking About Heath and Microbes,” Dalhousie University
2020 (Apr) “Patterns of Interaction as Units of Selection,” Integrated Bioscience (IB) Program, University of Akron, OH
2020 (Apr) “Functional Normativity and the Healthy Microbiome,” The Immunological Recognition of the Microbiota Approaching the Assymptote, Bordeaux, France
2020 (Feb) “Thinking About Regeneration in Microbial Systems,” Regeneration Mini-Conference, Indianapolis, IN
2019 (Oct) (refereed) “Health and Ecology,” Philosophy in Biology and Medicine (PhilInBioMed) Meeting, Bordeaux, France (could not attend—weather-related flight cancellation)
2019 (Oct) “Health and Ecology,” Atlantic Regional Philosophers Association (ARPA), Sydney, Nova Scotia
2019 (Jul) “Health and Ecology,” International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), Oslo, Norway
2019 (May) (speaker and organizer) w/ Derek Skillings, “Microbiome Regeneration? For and Against” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
2019 (Mar) (invited) “Health and Ecology,” Faculty of Arts Speaker Series, Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada
2019 (Feb) “The Artificial-Natural Distinction and Ecosystem Health,” Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Imperadore, Pamela
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Neuron Regeneration.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2021 (July) (w/ Fabio de Sio) “Deciphering regeneration through non-model animals: A century of experiments on cephalopod mollusks and an outlook at the future,” Traditional Session: “Aquatic Organisms, regeneration, and the utility of ‘non-traditional’ model species” (Chair and organizer: Kathryn Maxson Jones), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
2019 (Oct) w/ Graziano Fiorito, “Tissue regeneration: Cephalopod contribution over more than a century,” Society for Neuroscience, Chicago, IL
2019 (May) “Neural Regeneration Research After WWII: The Contributions of Cephalopods,” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Woods Hole, MA
Laplane, Lucie
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Stem Cell Regeneration.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2021 (July) “Clonal evolution: Toward a new view of clones,” Traditional Session: “Philosophy of Cancer, Part II” (Chair: Lucie Laplane), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
2021 (May) “Clonal Evolution: a conceptual turn,” Les séminaires de la recherche, Gustave Roussy, Paris, France
2021 (April) “L’évolution clonale : le problème de l’identité cellulaire », A quoi sert un grand programme de génomique pour la cancérologie?, Le SIRIC LYriCAN, l’Institut François Rabelais pour la Recherche multidisciplinaire sur le cancer, le Centre Léon Bérard et le Cancéropole Lyon Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
2021 (Jan) With A. Jourdain “Clonal evolution, of what clones?”, Mini-workshop “Cancer and Evolution” co-organized with T. Pradeu, Virtual
2020 (Dec) “TCGA: data driven science, hypothesis free, assumption loaded?,” Curie, Perié lab.
2020 (Oct) “Stem cell: Between philosophy and biology,” Workshop: “Conceptual and Methodological Aspects of Biomedical Research,” Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (virtual).
2020 (Oct) “The STEM project: integrating philosophy, phylogeny, and experimental biology to better understand stem cells,” Virtual Kick-off meeting of the ANR STEM Project.
2020 (Sept) (invited speaker) “Stemness,” Institut du Thorax, Nantes (virtual).
2020 (July) (invited speaker) “To portray clonal evolution in blood cancer, count your stem cells,” ImmunoConcept, Bordeaux (virtual).
2020 (June) (with Jourdain, A. and Perié, L.) “A Philosophical Appraisal Of Clonal Evolution: Unlocking Conceptual Barriers To The Transition From Bench To Bedside,” European Hematology Association (EHA) annual meeting, Poster EP1773, Frankfurt (virtual).
2020 (April) “Cell lineage: how special is the germline,” Curie, Perié lab (discussed some of Kate MacCord’s work as well as other topics).
2020 (Feb) “Les dessous de l’évolution clonale, journées en hommage à Michel Morange,” Paris, France
2020 (Jan) “Dirty little secrets of clonal evolution,” Lab meeting, Leïla Perié’s lab, Instit Curie, Paris, France
2020 (Jan) “Cancer and stem cells,” Philosophy of Cancer Conference, Bristol, UK
2020 (Jan) “What is a clone?” Second workshop, Philosophy of Cancer Biology, Bordeaux, France
2019 (Dec) (invited) w/ Kate MacCord, “From Stemness identity in Cancers to Germline Identity in Metazoans,” KLI seminar, Vienna, Austria
2019 (Dec) “What is a clone?” New Technologies Empowering Biomedical Research, XIIè symposium for Jeunes Chercheurs de l’Institut Cochin (JeCCo), Paris, France
2019 (Oct) “Biological properties: the case of stemness.” Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway
2019 (Oct) “Clones: Time to take a look at assumptions?” Club Hematopoiesis and Oncogenesis (CHO), Giens, France
2019 (Oct) “PhiLabo: Why science needs philosophy and vice versa,” Department of Philosophy, Oslo, Norway
2019 (Oct) “PhiLabo: Philosophy ‘by other means,’” PhilInBioMed 2nd meeting, Bordeaux, France
2019 (Sept) “PhiLabo: How experimental work can help do better PinS,” European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) annual meeting, Geneva, Switzerland
2019 (Sept) “What is stemness?” seminar of the Department of Biophysics, Institut Curie, Paris, France
2019 (July) (speaker and organizer) “Stemness in Homeostasis, Regeneration, and Cancer,” ISHPSSB, Oslo, Norway
2019 (May) “Stem cells in regeneration and cancer,” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
2019 (Apr) “Cellules souches: philosophie et thérapies,” Neuroschool, Marseille, France
2019 (Mar) “Cellules souches normales et cancéreuses: une analyse conceptuelle,” Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France
2019 (Feb) “What is stemness and how does that matter?” Philosophy & Biology Seminar, Bordeaux, France
2019 (Feb) w/ Eric Solary, “Game of clones: stem cells and cancer,” Institute for Cancer Research, London, UK
Laubichler, Manfred
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Systems Regeneration and Failure.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2021 (July) Diverse format session, “How can living systems persist: Regeneration, failure, and the future” (Chair: Susan Fitzpatrick), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
MacCord, Kate
2022 (Nov) “Rethinking Regeneration.” Arizona State University. Bioethics Breakfast Club.
2022 (Nov) “History for the Future: Regeneration in a Complex World.” History of Science Society. Chicago, IL. (Speaker)
2022 (May) “Germline Regeneration.” History of Biology Seminar. Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2022 (Apr) with Jane Maienschein “What is Regeneration?” Midwestern University Research Day. (Keynote Address)
2022 (Apr) “HPS and Scientific Knowledge.” Finding Philosophy in Science workshop, ASU
2021 (Dec) “The Trouble with Germline: Using Integrated History and Philosophy to Explore a Problematic Assumption.” Indiana University HPS Colloquium. Invited Speaker. Bloomington, IN.
2021 (Nov) “Conceptualizing Development.” Ethics and Philosophy of Biology Course. Strasbourg, France. (invited instructor)
2021 (Nov) “The Historical Roots of a Flawed Assumption: How the History of Germline Research Reifies and Undermines the Human Genome Editing Debate.” History of Science Society. Speaker (virtual). New Orleans, LA.
2021 (Nov) “Regeneration and the germline.” Philosophy of Science Association. Speaker. Baltimore, MD. Invited speaker (virtual).
2021 (July) Diverse format session, “How can living systems persist: Regeneration, failure, and the future” (Chair: Susan Fitzpatrick), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
2020 (Nov) (invited instructor) “Conceptualizing Development.” Ethics and Philosophy of Biology Course. Strasbourg, France.
2020 (Jan) (invited) w/ B. Duygu Özpolat, “History and Philosophy and Germline,” Center for Biology and Society Conversation Series, Center for Biology and Society, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
2019 (Dec) (invited) w/ B. Duygu Özpolat and Lucie Laplane, “Germline Identification in Metazoans,” Konrad Lorenz Institute Seminar, Vienna, Austria
2019 (Dec) (invited) w/ Lucie Laplane, “From Stemness identity in Cancers to Germline Identity in Metazoans,” Konrad Lorenz Institute Seminar, Vienna, Austria.
2019 (Nov) (panelist) w/ Jane Maienschein, Kathryn Maxson Jones, M. Susan Lindee, Betty Smocovitis, and Aaron Novick, “Biology Roundtable,” Science and Technology in the Long 20th Century, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2019 (Oct) (invited speaker, session chair, and roundtable panelist) w/ B. Duygu Özpolat, “Germline Regeneration in Metazoans,” PhilInBioMed, Bordeaux, France
2019 (Jul) (speaker and organizer) w/ B. Duygu Özpolat, “Germline Regeneration in Metazoans,” ISHPSSB, Oslo, Norway
2019 (May) (speaker and organizer) “History and Philosophy of Germ Cells,” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Woods Hole, MA
Maienschein, Jane
2023 “What is Regeneration? And Why do we think we want it?” Burian-McNabb Lecture, Virginia Tech
2022 (Nov) “History for the Future: Regeneration in a Complex World.” History of Science Society. Chicago, IL. (Speaker)
2022 “Jacques Loeb and MBL Scientific Discovery,” University of Chicago Graham School Course on “Scientific Discovery,”
2022 “Seeing Cells Exhibit,” Marine Biological Laboratory Trustees
2022 “Talking about Abortion: Defining Terms of Debate,” SciCom, University of Nebraska
2022 (Apr) with Kate MacCord, “What is Regeneration?” Midwestern University Research Day. (Keynote Address)
2022 (Apr) “Finding History and Philosophy in Science: So What?,” Finding Philosophy in Science workshop, ASU
2022 (Nov) History of Science Society. “History for the Future: Regeneration in a Complex World.” Chicago, IL.
2021 (July) Diverse format session, “How can living systems persist: Regeneration, failure, and the future” (Chair: Susan Fitzpatrick), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
2019 (Nov) (panelist) w/ Kate MacCord, Kathryn Maxson Jones, M. Susan Lindee, Betty Smocovitis, and Aaron Novick, “Biology Roundtable,” Science and Technology in the Long 20th Century, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2019 (July) “Regeneration Across Scales,” ISHPSSB, Oslo, Norway
2019 (Apr) “130 Years of Biology at the MBL,” Northeastern Society for Developmental Biology Meeting
2019 (Feb) “History and Philosophy of Science Really Do Matter for Policy and Law,” American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting
2019 “Embryos and the Context of Life and Death,” Rutgers University History Seminar
2019 “Embryos in History: Diverging Meanings of Life,” University of California, Irvine
Maxson Jones, Kathryn
2022 (Nov) History of Science Society. “History for the Future: Regeneration in a Complex World.” Chicago, IL. (Speaker)
2022 (May) History of Biology Seminar. “Neuron Regeneration.” Woods Hole, MA. (Speaker)
2022 (Apr) “You’ve got to work on this axon”: J.Z. Young and Squid Giant Axon Preparations in 20th-Century Neurobiology,” History and Historiography of the Life Sciences: Traces of Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany.
2021 (Nov) “Neuron Regeneration, Experimental Organisms, and the Curious Case of the Lamprey in 20th Century Neurobiology,” History of Science Society, New Orleans, LA.
2021 (July) “Experimental organisms, neuron regeneration, and the curious case of the lamprey in the history of the neurosciences, 1870s-present,” Traditional Session: “Aquatic Organisms, regeneration, and the utility of ‘non-traditional’ model species” (Chair and organizer: Kathryn Maxson Jones), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
2021 (April) Invited Lecture, “Neuron Regeneration, Experimental Organisms, and the Curious Case of the Lamprey in the History of the Neurosciences, 1870s-Present,” HPSM Lecture, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2020 (Oct) (session organizer and presenter) “Neuron Regeneration, Experimental Organisms, and the Curious Case of the Lamprey in 20th-Century Neurobiology,” History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, 8-11 Oct 2020 (postponed to 2021) (Session title: “Regeneration as a Boundary Concept: Dialogues between Basic and Applied Biology in the Long Twentieth Century,” w/ Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, and Frederick R. Davis), New Orleans, LA
2019 (Nov) (organizer) w/ Kate MacCord, Jane Maienschein, M. Susan Lindee, Betty Smocovitis, and Aaron Novick, “Biology Roundtable,” Science and Technology in the Long 20th Century, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
2019 (Oct) (poster presenter) w/ Jennifer R. Morgan, “Experimental organisms, neuron regeneration, and the curious case of the lamprey in the history of the neurosciences, 1960-present,” Society for Neuroscience (SfN), Chicago, IL
2019 (June) “Neurobiology @ the MBL: A History in Sources from the MBL-WHOI Library, Rare Books, & Archives,” MBL-WHOI Library Talk, Woods Hole, MA
2019 (May) (speaker and organizer) “ALamprey and Neuron Regeneration Research, 1975-Present,” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Woods Hole, MA
Matlin, Karl
2019 (Jul) “Functional Epithelial Cells in Culture,” ISHPSSB, Oslo, Norway
Özpolat, B. Duygu
2019 (May) “Germ Line Regeneration Across Metazoa,” MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar, Woods Hole, MA
Perié, Leïla
2019 (Jul) “Comparing Regeneration and Steady State Dynamics of Hematopoietic Stem Cells: What is the Data Telling Us?” ISHPSSB, Oslo, Norway
Reiß, Christian
2021 (July) “Cut and paste: The Mexican Axolotl, experimental practices, and the long history of regeneration research in amphibians, 1864-present,” Traditional Session: “Aquatic Organisms, regeneration, and the utility of ‘non-traditional’ model species” (Chair and organizer: Kathryn Maxson Jones), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
Santana, Carlos
2019 (Jul) “Restoration, Regeneration, and Novel Ecosystems,” ISHPSSB, Oslo, Norway
Stahnisch, Frank W.
2021 (Jul) “Brain regeneration phenomena, morphological research advances, and the practical implications of theory dynamics in modern bio-medicine,” Traditional session: “Regeneration from cells to limbs” (Chair: Heiner Fangerau, Organizer: Kathryn Maxson Jones), ISHPSSB virtual meeting, hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY
Vervoort, Michel
2020 (Nov) “Epigenetic view of regeneration in the annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii,” Meeting “From cells to embryos,” Paris, France.2020 (Oct) “Epigenetic view of regeneration in the annelid worm Platynereis dumerilii,” 1st Platynereis virtual meeting, online.
2019 (Oct) w/ Eve Gazave, Anabelle Planques, Hsien-chao Chou, Loïc Bideau, Luis Carlos Carreira, Stephan Q. Schneider “Molecular and Cellular Events Underlying Posterior Regeneration in the Annelid Platynereis Dumerili,” European Developmental Biology Congress (EBDC), Alicante, Spain.
2019 (May) “Transcriptomic analysis of Platynereis dumerilii regeneration,” 9th meeting of the EFOR network, Paris, France.
Worliczek, Hanna
2019 (Jul) “Entangling Morphology and Physiology: The Trajectory of Simple and Complex Systems of Cultured Cells in 1980s Research on Cytoskeleton-Environment Interactions,” MBL-WHOI Library Talk, Woods Hole, MA
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