 Large-scale interdisciplinary collaboration is increasingly highlighted as a necessary requirement for addressing the grand challenges of modern science and society (Vermeulen 2010; Calvert 2010; Andersen 2016). Interdisciplinarity is a hallmark of systems and synthetic biology, and both approaches offer rich sources for philosophical analysis of the epistemic features of interdisciplinary integration (O’Malley &amp; Soyer 2012), interdisciplinary identities (Calvert 2012), and of large-scale collaboration across different universities (Calvert &amp; Frow 2015; for examples of large-scale projects see the list of internet resources below).