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History of Genetics Day
Programme - 9th September 2009
09:00 Introduction: Professor Jonathan Harwood (UK)
Session 1: Bateson and his circle; early Mendelian genetics
09:15 Robert Olby (USA): William Bateson and the establishment of the John Innes Horticultural Institution
09:50 Marsha Richmond (USA): Institutionalizing Mendelism: Women in the John Innes Workforce
10:20 Refreshment Break
Session 2: Bateson and alternative approaches to heredity and evolution
10:50 Donald Forsdyke (Canada): William Bateson’s contributions to evolutionary theory
11:20 Theodore Porter (USA): Biometry and the question of blending inheritance
Session 3: Inter-war genetics and JIC
11:50 Oren Harman (Israel): Evolutionary chromosomes: C. D. Darlington and Cytogenetics
12:20 Jenny Marie (UK): Genetics in 1930s Britain: a context for genetics at the John Innes Horticultural Institution and the Plant Breeding Institute
13:00 Luncheon
14:10 Introduction: Professor Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
Session 4: Post war cultures of genetics
14:15 Soraya de Chadarevian (USA): Genetics in the atomic age
14:45 Colin Law: From Plant Breeding Institute to Crop Genetics
15:15 Refreshment Break
Session 5: Microbes and model organisms
15:45 Keith Chater (UK): Focus and diversity in the history of bacterial genetics
16:15 Sabina Leonelli (UK): Arabidopsis, the botanical Drosophila: from thale cress to model organism
16:45 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
