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Seminar - April 2017
Designer Babies, Human-Pig Chimeras, and Mosquitos: How Gene Editing is Being Made Public in Australia/Othering via Food Choice: Anti-Halal Sentiment in Contemporary Australia
The Conversation article
Perceptions of Genetically Modified Food are Informed by More than Just Science
The Conversation article
It's Complicated: Australia's Relationship with Eating Meat
Food Values Research Group in Hobart
The increasing prominence of food politics and visibility of formerly ‘marginal’ food practices provided a focal point for the diversity of issues, from ethical consumption and alternative food networks to food culture in the digital age, addressed by speakers at the ‘Food Politics: From the Margins to the Mainstream’ conference in Hobart on 30 June – 1 July 2016.
Seminar - October 2016
What if Ennis and Jack had Fished? Brokeback Mountain Revisited for Commensality, Companionship and Conviviality.
Catalyst looks at CRISPR, with expert comment from Prof Rachel Ankeny
On Tuesday the 30th of August, the ABC’s science program Catalyst ran a piece on gene editing, with a particular focus on one of the newest tools CRISPR-Cas9.
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Understanding Consumer Attitudes to the Use of Genetic Modification
Speaking to delegates from industry, researchers, and investors at the Ag & Foodtech Symposium in Brisbane, Professor Rachel Ankeny explained that the future of genetic modification must include dialogue and debate with the public.
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