Between September 2018 and June 2019, I was working on a project entitled “Edinburgh’s Animals’ Scientific Heritage: How Embryology and Genetics Inform Agricultural and Livestock Research”, in which I examined the relationship between embryology and genetics at Edinburgh. The aim of this project was to investigate how the disciplines were linked in research and teaching at Edinburgh, and particularly focusing on the research into animal genetics and its links to agriculture or the livestock industry.
The overarching questions for this project were:
If you’re interested in the project and would like to know more, please get in touch using the form below.
The overarching questions for this project were:
- What were the links between embryology and genetics at Edinburgh in the twentieth century?
- How did these links emerge as useful or influential for agricultural or livestock research?
- What was the legacy of the links between embryology and genetics at Edinburgh in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?
If you’re interested in the project and would like to know more, please get in touch using the form below.
WORKSHOP:
“APPROACHES TO GENETICS FOR LIVESTOCK RESEARCH”
In May 2019 I held a workshop focused on the history of genetics and genomics for livestock research, as carried out at the University of Edinburgh in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Presentations from geneticists and historians encouraged interdisciplinary conversation between researchers, and discourse between the sciences and the humanities.
If you would like to know more about this meeting, please get in touch through the web form above.
Presentations from geneticists and historians encouraged interdisciplinary conversation between researchers, and discourse between the sciences and the humanities.
If you would like to know more about this meeting, please get in touch through the web form above.
Image: Temple At Luxor, Egypt November 2007 (C) Cheryl Lancaster