| Date | Note | Topic | Readings (see the notes on readings, especially for readings with *) |
| TU, Jan 17 | Introduction to the course (ppt) | Quiz and results | |
| TH, Jan 19 | Origins of genetic modification (ppt) | - *Charles 2002, Lords of the Harvest |
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| TU, Jan 24 | Products and transatlantic disputes (ppt) | ||
| TH, Jan 26 | Developing world, resistance, and polarization (ppt) | Schurman and Munro 2010:57-67, from Fighting for the Future of Food - optional: Jasanoff 2005, Designs on Nature; Stone 2010:386-87, Reactions and Resistance (from Anthropology of Genetically Modified Crops); Hobsbawm 1952, The Machine Breakers; Stone 2005, A Science of the Gray |
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| TU, Jan 31 | Quiz 1 | Feeding the World (ppt) | - Borlaug 2000, Are We Going Mad? - Stone 2010, Neo-Malthusianism - Sen 1981, chapter 1 from Poverty and Famine - optional: Sen 1993, Economics of Life & Death, pp. 40-42; |
| W, Feb 1 7 pm |
optional session McMillan 149 |
Central dogma review | Crick and Chrispeels & Sadava (see next class) |
| TH, Feb 02 | Prof. Ho | Central dogma and transformation (ppt) | - Crick 1970, Central Dogma of Molecular Biology - Chrispeels & Sadava, Molecular Basis of Genetic Modification Ch 6 |
| TU, Feb 07 | Prof. Kunkel | After transformation (pdf) | - no reading but start on Kloppenburg! |
| TH, Feb 09 | Quiz 2 | Breeding & commodification (ppt) | - *Kloppenburg Chaps 1-6 |
| TU, Feb 14 | IPR basics (ppt) | -Stone 2011, Baseball Bats and Breast Cancer -Conley 2009, Gene Patents and the Product of Nature Doctrine -Pollack 2012, Justices Send Back Gene Case |
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| TH, Feb 16 | Prof. Andrew Torrance | Gene patents, the gene concept, and the patent concept (pdf) | -Torrance 2010, Gene Concepts, Gene Talk, and Gene Patents |
| TU, Feb 21 | WTO (ppt) | - Lessig 2004, Taste of Our Own Poison - Crucible II Group 2000 (Seeding Solutions, pp. 86-108) |
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| TH, Feb 23 | Quiz 3 | WTO (ppt) | - Stone 2011, GM Crops from St. Louis to India (mainly #8, "Resistance and Counter-Terrorism in St Louis") |
| TU, Feb 28 | Prof. Schaal | Gene flow and Mexican maize (2011) | - SKIM
Quist & Chapela 2001 (also as pdf ), Quist & Chapela 2002 including editorial note,Ortiz-Garcia et al. 2005, Piñeyro et al 2009, Snow et al. 2003 |
| TH, Mar 01 | Debating gene flow (ppt) |
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Monbiot 2002, Fake Persuaders (including the CFFAR site & Smetacek petition) - Waltz 2009, Battlefield - optional: Chapela 2006 (Scandal reveals political greed); Berkeley webcast on scientific dissent; index to articles on Chapela; WP article on internet shills and meat puppets |
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| TU, Mar 06 | Prof. Olsen | Superweeds (Olsen, Stone) | - Neuman & Pollack 2010, Farmers Cope with Roundup-Resistant Weeds - Hague & Sprague 2000, Weed Resistance to Herbicides - Charles 2012 NPR report on Palmer amaranth |
| TH, Mar 08 | Midterm 1 | ||
| Mar 13-15 | Spring Break | ||
| TU, Mar 20 | Regulation in US and Europe (ppt) | - Martineau 2001, First Fruit | |
| TH, Mar 22 | Regulation and Biosecurity (ppt) | - Stone 2011, New GM Grass | |
| TU, Mar 27 | Global biodiversity disputes (ppt) | - Kloppenburg Chap. 7 | |
| TH, Mar 29 | Quiz 4 | Industry-Academy relations (ppt) | - Kloppenburg Chap. 8 - optional: Press and Washburn 2000, The Kept University |
| TU, Apr 03 | Golden Rice and pro-poor biotech (ppt) | - Nash 2000, This Rice Could Save a Million Kids a Year | |
| TH, Apr 05 | Dr. Nigel Taylor | GM Crops for Africa (pdf) | SKIM: - Sayre et al 2011, The BioCassava Plus Program: Biofortification of Cassava for Sub-Saharan Africa - Taylor et al. 2012, The VIRCA Project |
| TU, Apr 10 | Field trip | DDPSC | |
| TH, Apr 12 | China, Africa, S. America (ppt) | - Thomson 2002, Genes for Africa: GM Crops in the Developing World, 1st page - Paarlberg 2008, Starved for Science, excerpt - optional: Richards 1997, African Green Revolution?, pp. 201-214 and 242-244 |
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| TU, Apr 17 | India (ppt) | - Leonard 2007, Ganesh and Brahma bow to a new god - Stone 2011, Field vs Farm in Warangal - strongly recommended: Bitter Seeds film - recommended: Stone 2012, Bt Cotton, Remarkable Success, and Four Ugly Facts |
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| TH, Apr 19 | Food quality & ethics (ppt) | - Pollan 2007, Unhappy Meals - Schlosser 2001, Food Product Design (from Fast Food Nation) - recommended: Petersen 2012, What Are Animal Scientists Serving? |
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| Mo, Apr 23 | Meat Ethics Panel (ppt) | ||
| TU, Apr 24 | Dr. Vandeventer | Alternative agriculture (pdf) | - visit Davis Creek Farm website - Raftery 2011, New Food Culture - Salatin 2010, Can We Feed the World? - recommended: Walker 2012, Contemporary Agrarianism: A Reality Check |
| TH, Apr 26 | Midterm 2 | ||