Claudia X. Valdes and Phillip Thurtle's talk From Spiderman to Alba: Transgenics in a Post-nuclear World suggested that superhero and transgenics offer a form of exploration of a post-nuclear world quoting examples from Eduardo Kac's work and Stelarc's Extra Ear.
Miriam van Rijsingen talk titled Prolific Encounters: towards a Philosophy of Mutability referenced Helen Chadwick and Mel Chin's works as a perspective to the art/science debate today.
Jennifer Willet and Shawn Bailey talk, BIOTEKNICA - A Mutation Model for Teratological Art analyses grotesque organisms similiar to organisms of "The Fly", "Rosemary's baby" and "Alien Resurrection" and produced models on the Teratoma - an instance of spontaneous cloning.
The following evening after Adam Zaretsky's talk we stand waiting by the Mayor of Prague's private residence, behind us are two Canadians discussing his work and the need for humour in art/science intersections.
Zaretsky is of course all this...an artist, an improvisationist/stand-up comedian with a twisted mind for anything that can be twisted (and most things can be...). His talk On Mutaphobia summarises recent variations/mutations of phobia in relation to culture and biotechnologies using series of language constructions (mutabilities). In good fashion with his argument he ends his presentation by throwing gamma radiated seeds at the audience! (Halloween next year?)