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 * Memo: Biosketch 2033.**

Karin Patzke is a tenure professor at this prestigious institution. She is the co-founder and editor the Knowledge, Technology and Legal Theory book series. A science and legal scholar, her current academic pursuits focus on the legal constructions of scientific practices, specifically in regards to property, genetics and ‘scientific’ practice. Her work in science and technology includes analysis of policy and economic implications of patenting life science research. With the extensive ‘intellectual’ property reforms of the mid 2020s, Patzke’s current research focuses on the decline of international biotech and pharmaceutical companies and the surge of DIY healthcare. Her most recent book, "Collectivism after Property: changes in scientific imaginaries"[1], focuses on the so-called renaissance of genetic research given recent open access to gene sequences and clinical data. Patzke’s additional scholarship expands to new modes of ‘laboratory studies’ focused on collective laboratories in rural areas. Her forthcoming book “The Archive and the Laboratory in the Garden” is an historical analysis of Seed Savers, a non-profit organization credited with the revival of domestic breeding and genetic research in the US. Patzke leads a summer fellowship for social science graduate students at all levels, focusing on the development of thoughtful writing and reflection in scholarship.

[1] A riff on Stimson, Blake, and Gregory Sholette, eds. //Collectivism after modernism: The art of social imagination after 1945//. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.