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History of Genetics Day
Most of the presentations during the History of Genetics Day were recorded and are available for viewing by following the links below. Unfortunately, due to technical issues with the sound recording, the sound quality is quite poor.
9th September 2009
Session 1: Bateson and his circle; early Mendelian genetics
Robert Olby (USA): William Bateson and the establishment of the John Innes Horticultural Institution
Marsha Richmond (USA): Institutionalizing Mendelism: Women in the John Innes Workforce
Session 2: Bateson and alternative approaches to heredity and evolution
Donald Forsdyke (Canada): William Bateson’s contributions to evolutionary theory
Theodore Porter (USA): Biometry and the question of blending inheritance
Session 3: Inter-war genetics and JIC
Oren Harman (Israel): Evolutionary chromosomes: C. D. Darlington and Cytogenetics
Jenny Marie (UK): Genetics in 1930s Britain: a context for genetics at the John Innes Horticultural Institution and the Plant Breeding Institute
Session 4: Post war cultures of genetics
Session 5: Microbes and model organisms
Keith Chater (UK): Focus and diversity in the history of bacterial genetics
Sabina Leonelli (UK): Arabidopsis, the botanical Drosophila: from thale cress to model organism
Concluding discussion led by Professor Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
Organising Committee
Professor Keith Roberts (Chair, JIC Emeritus Professor), the late Professor Chris Lamb (Director JIC), Professor Sir David Hopwood (JIC Emeritus Professor), Professor Enrico Coen, (JIC), Dr Dee Rawsthorne (JIC), Sarah Wilmot (JIC), Professor Paul Nurse (Rockefeller, NY, USA), Sir Walter Bodmer (Oxford, UK). Secretariat: Dawn Barrett