Dr. Adam Zaretsky of NADLinc is a nomadic Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy. Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion (pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), jazz bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress). A former researcher at the MIT department of biology, Adam runs labs on DIY-IGM (Do-It-Yourself Inherited Genetic Modification of the Human Genome). His art practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on transgenic humans, methods of transgenesis and germline aesthetics. http://artsci.ucla.edu/node/1128

What he has been reading: Genbank Online Bioinformatics Database

meet the genome of the Dolphin Lipotes vexillifer UBE3D for fun reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/?term=Lipotes+vexillifer+UBE3D

Czech out the HECT_2; HECT-like Ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme (E2) binding FASTA and Sequence Viewer (Graphics) too!

For further research, the links Mentioned:

https://www.hackteria.org/workshops/thgap/

https://www.makery.info/en/author/adam-zaretsky/

https://www.makery.info/en/2021/09/01/english-human-germline-gene-editing-is-bioart-an-open-letter-to-lulu-and-nana/

Warplanes for Vultures – the failure of Art or Science to stop endless collateral damage, interspecies enrichment, sympathetic magick, eating the war machine, eaten by vultures during “Animal and Other Non-Human Enrichment in Parks and Preserves (Seeking Provisioning Advice)”, Bambi Seminar, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, 2019.

Hybrid DNA Isolation, Vivoarts: Biology and Art Studio Master Class, University of Leiden, 2007