On 24 May 2019, Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Cheryl Lancaster organised Approaches to Genetics for Livestock Research, a workshop supported by Susan Manning Workshop Funding from IASH, that aimed to explore the history of genetics research for farming at the University of Edinburgh. The workshop aimed to bring together scholars from the humanities and sciences to discuss how heredity, genetics, and genomics has impacted livestock breeding through the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first. Bringing together researchers from various backgrounds resulted in a more comprehensive overview of the role genetics has had, and still has, in animal breeding. The session tied-in with Lancaster’s postdoctoral research project, Edinburgh’s Animals’ Scientific Heritage: How Embryology and Genetics Inform Agricultural and Livestock Research.
A full report is available here (opens as PDF).