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Dr. Ford Doolittle, Dr. Mélanie Frappier, Dr. Kregg Hetherington, Dr. Letitia Meynell, Dr. Brian Noble

Ford Doolittle, PhD, FRS(C)

Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and   Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University

Dr. Ford Doolittle is an Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Dalhousie. His laboratory research has been in microbial molecular genetics, phylogenetics and metagenomics, and areas of theoretical interest include the Gaia hypothesis, “selfish DNA”, the origins of genomic complexity, lateral gene transfer and the “Tree of Life”. He was a senior research scholar at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology in 2004-05, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

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Mélanie Frappier, PhD

Assistant Professor, History of Science and Technology Programme, University of King’s College

Dr. Mélanie Frappier teaches the history of modern science and history of technology at the University of King’s College. She is at present assembling a collection of primary texts to be used in the teaching of the history of technology and is currently developing a collection of historical scientific instruments to enhance the teaching of science and its history in local universities. Dr Frappier’s research focuses on the history of philosophy of 20th century physics (especially special relativity and quantum mechanics), the interpretation of theories, the role of thought experiments in science, and the historiography of science.

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Kregg Hetherington, PhD

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University

Kregg Hetherington is a social anthropologist who studies the politics of expert knowledge, particularly in agricultural science and environmental law in Latin America.  He is author ofGuerrilla Auditors: transparency and democracy in neoliberal Paraguay (Duke, 2011), a book about the relationship between rural activists and bureaucratic reformers.  Kregg's current research focuses on the way the soybean boom in Latin America's southern cone is changing how states become enrolled in scientific and technological networks, and how social movements, NGOs and corporations struggle to understand and control the relationship between humans and plants. Website

Letitia Meynell, PhD

Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Dalhousie University

Dr. Letitia Meynell’s teaching and research is primarily in the area of philosophy of science, with a particular interest in the epistemology of scientific images and feminist critiques of biology. Specifically, she has written on the epistemology of Feynmen diagrams, anatomical drawing and is currently working on neuroimaging. She has also published on feminist approaches to biology and co-edited a collection of essays with Sue Campbell and Susan Sherwin on feminist embodiment theory, Agency and Embodiment (Penn State, 2009). Currently, she is working with Jim Brown (University of Toronto) and Mélanie Frappier (University of King’s College) as a guest editor for a special issue of Knowledge Engineering Review on visual reasoning.  Website

Brian Noble, PhD

Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University

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