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Reading List

Mendel’s original paper

Experiments in plant hybridization. G Mendel, 1865.
ISBN-10: 0674278003; ISBN-13: 978-0674278004

History/Philosophy/Impact of Genetics

Ending the Mendel-Fisher Controversy. Hartl, et al.,ed., 2008.
ISBN-10: 0822959860; ISBN-13: 978-0822959861

Mendel’s Legacy: the origin of classical genetics. EA Carlson, 2004.
ISBN 0-87969-673-3

Gene Action: Historical Account. W Maas, ISBN-10: 0195141318;
ISBN-13: 978-0195141313

In Mendel’s Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology. P Kitcher, 2003.
ISBN-10: 0195151798; ISBN-13: 978-0195151794

The Impact of the Gene: from Mendel’s Peas to Designer Babies. C Tudge,
ISBN-10: 0374175233; ISBN-13: 978-0374175238

A Century of Mendelism in Human Genetics. Keynes, Edwards, Peel, eds., 2004
ISBN-10: 0415329604; ISBN-13: 978-0415329606

Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics. Phillip Reilly, 2000.
ISBN-10: 0879695803; ISBN-13: 978-0879695804

Davenport’s Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity & Eugenics. Witkowski, Inglis, eds, 2008 ISBN 978-087969756-3

Neither Gods Nor Beasts: How Science Is Changing Who We Think We Are. EA. Carlson, 2008
ISBN 978-087969786-0

Mendel Biographies

Gregor Mendel: First Geneticist. V Orel and S Finn, 1996.
ISBN-10: 0198547749; ISBN-13: 978-0198547747

Monk in the Garden. R Marantz Henig, 2001.
ISBN-10: 0618127410; ISBN-13: 978-0618127412

Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics. S Mawer, 2006.
ISBN-10: 0810957485; ISBN-13: 978-0810957480

For children and young adults

Gregor Mendel: Friar who grew peas. C Bardoe and JA Smith, 2006.
ISBN-10: 0810954753; ISBN-13: 978-0810954755

Gregor Mendel: the roots of genetics. E Edelson, 2001.
ISBN-10: 0195150201; ISBN-13: 978-0195150209

From Mendel’s Peas to Genetic Fingerprinting: Discovery of Inheritance. S Morgan, 2006.
ISBN-10: 1403488371; ISBN-13: 978-1403488374

Invited Speakers’ Books and Articles

Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines. EF Keller, 2003.
ISBN-10: 067401250X; ISBN-13: 978-0674012509

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock. EF Keller, 1984.
ISBN-10: 0805074589; ISBN-13: 978-0805074581

The Century of the Gene. EF Keller, 2002.
ISBN-10: 0674008251; ISBN-13: 978-0674008250

Reflections on Gender and Science. EF Keller, 1996.
ISBN-10: 0300065957; ISBN-13: 978-0300065954

Ending the Mendel-Fisher Controversy. Franklin, Edwards, Fairbanks, and Hartl,eds., 2008.
ISBN-10: 0822959860; ISBN-13: 978-0822959861

Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA. Daniel Fairbanks, 2007
ISBN-10: 1591025648 ; ISBN-13: 978-1591025641

God and the New Athesism: A Critical Response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens. J Haught, 2007.
ISBN-10: 066423304X; ISBN-13: 978-0664233044

Christianity and Science: Toward a Theology of Nature. J Haught, 2007.
ISBN-10: 1570757402; ISBN-13: 978-1570757402

Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science. J Haught, 2006.
ISBN-10: 0521847141; ISBN-13: 978-0521847148

The Worth of a Child. T Murray, 1996.
ISBN-10: 0520088360; ISBN-13: 978-0520088368

Future Perfect. L Andrews, 2002.
ISBN-10: 0231121636; ISBN-13: 978-0231121637

The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology. L Andrews, 2000.
ISBN-10: 080506446X

The Body Bazaar: the Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age. L Andrews, 2001.
ISBN-10: 0609605402; ISBN-13: 978-0609605400

Immunity. L. Andrews. 2008.
ISBN-10: 0312352727; ISBN-13: 978-0312352721

The Silent Assassin. L. Andrews. 2008.
ISBN-10: 0312946481; ISBN-13: 978-0312946487

Integrating New Technologies for Striga Control: Towards Ending the Witch Hunt. G Ejeta, J Gressel, eds., 2007.
ISBN-10: 9812707085; ISBN-13: 978-9812707086

The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution. SB Carroll, 2007.
ISBN-10: 0393330516; ISBN-13: 978-0393330519

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo-Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom. SB Carroll, 2005.
ISBN-10: 0393060160

From DNA to Diversity: Molecular Genetics and the Evolution of Animal Design. SB Carroll, JK Grenier, SD Weatherbee, 2001.
ISBN-10: 0632045116; ISBN-13: 978-0632045112

Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution (P.S,). KR Miller, 2007.
ISBN-10: 0061233501; ISBN-13: 978-0061233500

Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America’s Soul. KR Miller, 2008.
ISBN-10: 067001883X; ISBN-13: 978-0670018833 8833

Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. P. Offit. 2008.
ISBN-10: 0231146361; ISBN-13: 978-0231146364

Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Disease. P. Offit.
2008. ISBN-10: 006122796X; ISBN-13: 978-0061227967

Transitions from Non-living to Living Matter. D. Krakauer. 2008.
History, Big History, and Megahistory. D. Krakauer. 2009.

How Intellectual Property and Plant Breeding Come Together: Corn as a Case Study for Breeders and Re¬search Managers. V. Gracen. 2007. In Intellectual Property Management in Health and Agricultural Innovation: A Handbook of Best Practices (eds. A Krattiger, RT Mahoney, L Nelsen, et al.). MIHR: Oxford, U.K., and PIPRA: Davis, U.S.A. Available online at http://www.iphandbook.org/.

Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure. P. Offit. 2008.
ISBN-10: 0231146361; ISBN-13: 978-0231146364
Vaccinated: One Man's Quest to Defeat the World's Deadliest Disease. P. Offit. 2008.
ISBN-10: 006122796X; ISBN-13: 978-0061227967

Short protocols in human genetics: a compendium of methods from Current Protocols in Human Genetics. editorial board Nicholas C. Dracopoli... [et al.] Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004. ISBN: 0471694185 DDC: 599.935 LCC: QH440.5

Biological Confinement. 2004. Committee on the Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms, National Research Council. M. Schechtman advised committee.

Articles by P. Sklar

Sklar P, Smoller JW, Fan J, Ferreira MA, Perlis RH, Chambert K, Nimgaonkar VL, McQueen MB, Faraone SV, Kirby A, de Bakker PI, Ogdie MN, Thase ME, Sachs GS, Todd-Brown K, Gabriel SB, Sougnez C, Gates C, Blumenstiel B, Defelice M, Ardlie KG, Franklin J, Muir WJ, McGhee KA, Macintyre DJ, McLean A, Vanbeck M, McQuillin A, Bass NJ, Robinson M, Lawrence J, Anjorin A, Curtis D, Scolnick EM, Daly MJ, Blackwood DH, Gurling HM, Purcell SM. Whole-genome association study of bipolar disorder. Mol Psychiatry.
2008 Mar 4[E-pub ahead of print

Weiss LA, Shen Y, Korn JM, Arking DE, Miller DT, Fossdal R, Saemundsen E, Stefansson H, Ferreira MA, Green T, Platt OS, Ruderfer DM, Walsh CA, Altshuler D, Chakravarti A, Tanzi RE, Stefansson K, Santangelo SL, Gusella JF, Sklar P, Wu BL, Daly MJ; Autism Consortium. (2008) Association between microdeletion and microduplication at 16p11.2 and autism.
N Engl J Med. 358(7):667-75.

Perlis RH, Purcell S, Fagerness J, Kirby A, Petryshen TL, Fan J, Sklar P. (2008) Family-based association study of lithium-related and other candidate genes in bipolar disorder.
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 65(1):53-61.

Purcell S, Neale B, Todd-Brown K, Thomas L, Ferreira MA, Bender D, Maller J, Sklar P, de Bakker PI, Daly MJ, Sham PC. (2007) PLINK: a tool set for whole-genome association and population-based linkage analyses.
Am J Hum Genet. 81(3):559-75.

Mutsuddi M, Morris DW, Waggoner SG, Daly MJ, Scolnick EM, Sklar P. (2006) Analysis of high-resolution HapMap of DTNBP1 (Dysbindin) suggests no consistency between reported common variant associations and schizophrenia. Am J Hum Genet. 79(5):903-9.

Lichtenstein P, Björk C, Hultman CM, Scolnick E, Sklar P, Sullivan PF. (2006) Recurrence risks for schizophrenia in a Swedish national cohort.
Psychol Med. 36(10):1417-25.

Articles by D. Krakauer

Krakauer. D.C. The Universal Darwinism of Disease. Science. (2007) PDF
Review of Steven Franks book, The Dynamics of Cancer, PUP.

Krakauer, D.C. The Elusive Semantics of Information. Artificial Life. 13: 415-417. (2007) PDF
Review of J.G. Roederer’s book, Information and its Role in Nature.

Krakauer, D.C The Quest for Patterns in Metahistory . SFI Bulletin. (2007 ). PDF
Essay on the prospects of a complexity science of history

Krakauer, D.C . Cellular Struggle at Heart of Variety. (2006). PDF
Review of The Plausibility of Life by Kirschner and Gerhart. Yale Univesity Press.

Krakauer, D.C No one’s spotted the divine designer. Times Higher Education Supplement. (2005 )  PDF
Review of Debating Design Edited by Michael Ruse. OUP 2004.

Krakauer, D.C. The Character of Biological Law. SFI Bulletin Summer. (2005 ). PDF
Essay on the status of the search for law-like regularity in the biological sciences.

Krakauer, D.C. Home Improvers are a Natural Fact. Times Higher Education Supplement. (2005)
Review of Niche Construction by John Odling Smee et al. PUP. 2004

Krakauer, D.C. What gets you going first thing? Times Higher Education Supplement. (2004)  PDF
Review of Foster and Kreitzman's Rhythms of Life. OUP.

Krakauer, D.C. An Inordinate Fondness for Bacteria. Heredity (2004)
Review of Fenshel's short primer on the origin of life published by OUP.

Krakauer, D.C. & Nowak, M.A. Fragile Dominion. Notices of the AMS 47: 564-568 (2000) PDF
Review of Simon Levin's monograph on ecology, complexity and human responsibility.

Articles by M. McGue

Johnson, W., Krueger, R.F., Bouchard, T.J. Jr., & McGue, M. (2002). The personalities of twins: Just ordinary folks.
Twin Research, 5: 125-131.

Taylor, J., Malone, S., Iacono, W.G., & McGue, M. (2002). Development of substance dependence in two delinquency subgroups and nondelinquents from a male twin sample.
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41: 386-393.

McGue, M., & Christensen, K. (2002). The heritability of level and rate-of-change in cognitive functioning in Danish twins aged 70 years and older.
xperimental Aging Research, 28: 435-451.

Iacono, W.G. & McGue, M. (2002). Minnesota Twin Family Study.
Twin Research, 5: 482-487.

Malone, S.M., Iacono, W.G. & McGue, M. (2002). Drinks of the father: father’s maximum number of drinks consumed predicts externalizing disorders, substance use, and substance use disorders in preadolescent and adolescent offspring.
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 26: 1823-1832.

Bouchard, T.J. & McGue, M. (2003). Genetic and environmental influences on human psychological differences.
Journal of Neurobiology, 54: 4-45.

McGue, M. & Iacono, W.G. (2003). The initiation of substance use in adolescence: A behavioral genetic perspective. In L.F. DiLalla (ed.)
Behavior Genetic Principles -- Development, Personality.

Articles by M. Christman

Herbert, A., M. E. Lenburg, D. Ulrich, N. P. Gerry, K. Schlauch, M. F. Christman.  Open-access database of candidate associations from a genome-wide SNP scan of the Framingham Heart Study. 2007. Nature Genetics. 39:135-136. Pubmed ID 17262019

Herbert, A., N. P. Gerry, M. McQueen, I. M. Heid, A. Pfeufer, T. Illig, H.-E. Wichmann, T. Meitinger, D. Hunter, F. B. Hu, G. Colditz, A. Hinney, J. Hebebrand, K. Koberwitz, X. Zhu, R. Cooper, K. Ardlie, H. Lyon, J. Hirschhorn, N. M. Laird, M. E. Lenburg, C. Lange and M. F. Christman. A common genetic variant is associated with adult and childhood obesity. 2006. Science. 5771:279-283. reprint (432 KB, PDF)

Van Steen K., M.B. McQueen, A. Herbert, Raby, H. Lyon, D.L. Demeo, A. Murphy, J. Su, S. Datta, C. Rosenow, M. Christman, E.K. Silverman, N.M. Laird, S.T. Weiss, C. Lange. 2005. Genomic screening and replication using the same data set in family-based association testing. Nature Genetics 37:683-691. reprint (281 KB, PDF)

Carson, J. P., N. Zhiang, G. Frampton, N. P. Gerry, M. E. Lenburg and M. F. Christman. 2004. Pharmacogenomic identification of targets for adjuvant therapy with the topoisomerase poison camptothecin. Cancer Research. 64:2096-104. reprint (251 KB, PDF)

Lenburg, M.E., L.S. Liou, N.P. Gerry, G.M. Frampton, H.T. Cohen, M.F. Christman. 2003. Previously unidentified changes in renal cell carcinoma gene expression identified by parametric analysis of microarray data. BMC Cancer. 3:31. open access article

Bird, A.W., Yu, D.Y., Pray-Grant, M.G., Qiu, Q., Harmon, K.E., Megee, P.C., Grant, P.A., Smith, M.M. and Christman, M.F. (2002). Acetylation of histone H4 by Esa1p is required for DNA double strand break repair. Nature 419, 411-415. reprint (380 KB, PDF)

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Genetics Resources Online
http://www.mendelweb.org/ - this is a link to the Mendel Web site, an educational resource on all things Mendel.

About Mendel's Experiments
http://www.mendelweb.org/Mendel.html - The HTML version of Mendel's paper with a lot of useful annotation for students and faculty.

http://www.mendelweb.org/MWhartl.intro.html - The HTML version of an essay written by Dan Hartl (one of the invited speakers) and V. Orel, on Mendel's work.

Title and Abstracts of Mendel 21st Century Invited Speakers
and Faculty Contributors

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* call_for_papers.doc
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