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16/01/2022

Portraits of blue-skies research at Carlsberg Laboratory

Portraits of blue-skies research at Carlsberg Laboratory
16/01/2022

Turning research organisms on their head at 4S in Australia

Rachel Ankeny and Sabina Leonelli have done a great deal to shape and populate history and philosophy of science attention to model organisms through their joint work over the past two decades.

Snowflake_yeast_diagram
16/01/2022

Extracting value from digitizing microbes in Oslo – a ReDig workshop

Nothing about the city centre of Oslo would tell you that you’re in the same country as the sharp-edged fjords that characterise the north of Norway.

16/01/2022

Past and present of human genomics at the National Institutes of Health

The TRANSGENE project was invited to a workshop organised by the National Human Genome Research Institute of the United States (NHGRI) to explore both historical perspectives and present-day prospects of genomics research.
The pig breeders' roundtable logo
16/01/2022

Pig Breeders' Roundtable

Every two years, academic researchers join scientists and representatives from leading pig breeding companies at the verdant campus of the University of Kent, just outside of Canterbury. The event, the Pig Breeders' Roundtable, has been held for over 40 years, and was until the last decade hosted at Wye College in Surrey, a now-defunct agricultural college.
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16/01/2022

The future of sustainable food production?

On July 18th, I attended a horizon-scanning workshop on food sustainability hosted by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

The show: Will Pigs Save Our Bacon? poster
16/01/2022

TRANSGENE goes to the Fringe

On 22nd August, TRANSGENE took part in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the largest arts festival in the world. As part of the ‘Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas’ strand, James Lowe presented a show entitled ‘Will Pigs Save Our Bacon?’ at The Stand’s New Town Theatre on George Street.
16/01/2022

Panel on working with large datasets in the history of science - call for expressions of initial interest

We would like to request expressions of interest in participating in a panel at the conference on the theme of working with large datasets in the history of science.
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16/01/2022

New publication: 'Sequencing Through Thick and Thin'

The first peer-reviewed publication arising from the TRANSGENE project has now been published online by the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
16/01/2022

TRANSGENE on European genomics

At the recent conference of the European Society for the History of Science in London, the TRANSGENE team organised a symposium chaired by Robert Bud on the crucial role of European transnational collaboration in the history of genomics.
16/01/2022

Yeast as a model organism at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

As I scuffed my shoes on scattered tree branches, bits of broken asphalt, and varied road debris with fast-moving lorries and sports cars whizzing past my right shoulder, it occurred that one of the principle scientific advantages of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is isolation.

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16/01/2022

Genomics in Context: first major update

The first set of articles on new web resource 'Genomics in Context' have now been published: www.genomicsincontext.com

This new website features articles from scholars of genomics Stephan Guettinger (London School of Economics), Miguel García-Sancho, Catherine Heeney and James Lowe (all University of Edinburgh). Additionally, there is a blog containing shorter contributions.