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DTSTART:20180424T170500Z
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LOCATION:4274 Chamberlin (Refreshments will be served)
SUMMARY:Postgenomic complexity\, Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar\, Joa
 n Fujimura\, UW Department of Sociology
DESCRIPTION:The postgenomic era has been ongoing for some time\, depen
 ding on whom one asks. This talk will discuss several fields that deve
 loped with the aim to complexify the reductionism of genetics.  I earl
 ier wrote about systems biology and developmental systems theory. Deve
 lopmental Systems Theory (DST) developed in negative response to the g
 enetic reductionism of early genetics rhetoric and theoretical approac
 hes.  Systems biology developed in positive response to the vast terri
 tories of information produced by the genome sequencing projects\, wha
 t we now call “big data.”  Sociologists have studied systems biolo
 gy and epigenetics as hoped-for avenues to operationalize DST and comp
 lexity.  Epigenetics has recently been proclaimed to be the solution t
 o difficulties met by genetics and genomics in the search for health a
 nd disease mechanisms and potential therapies.  However\, epigenetics 
 as DNA methylation at and around the genome differs vastly from “epi
 genetic inheritance.” Some scholars have argued that epigenetics is 
 producing reductive explanations such as “blame the mother\,” that
  emulate genetic reductive explanations.  This talk will discuss these
  in the context of our current research on epigenetics and systems bio
 logy.  
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4798
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