Thomas Söderqvist A History of Genetics Day will take place at the John Innes Centre, Norwich (UK) on 9 September 2009. An international line-up of historians of science will speak, including
- Robert Olby: William Bateson and the establishment of the John Innes Horticultural Institution
- Marsha Richmond: Institutionalizing Mendelism: Women in the John Innes Workforce
- Donald Forsdyke: William Bateson’s contributions to evolutionary theory
- Ted Porter: Biometry and the question of blending inheritance
- Oren Harman: Evolutionary chromosomes: C. D. Darlington and Cytogenetics
- Jenny Marie: Genetics in 1930s Britain: a context for genetics at the John Innes Horticultural Institution and the Plant Breeding Institute
- Soraya de Chadarevian: Genetics in the atomic age
- Mike Gale: From Plant Breeding Institute to Crop Genetics
- Keith Chater: Focus and diversity in the history of bacterial genetics
- Sabina Leonelli: Arabidopsis, the botanical Drosophila: from thale cress to model organism
The conference will be accompanied by a historical exhibition drawing on the John Innes Foundation Historical Collections. More info here.
