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2018 Genetics Society Medal and Prize Lectures
- This year our medal lectures will be held at a special gathering. All are welcome at the Kendrew Lecture Theatre, European...
The 2018 Ri Christmas Lectures
- Entitled “Who am I?”, the 2018 Ri Christmas Lectures, were sponsored (among others) by The Genetics Society. Hosted as usual...
Mather Memorial Prize 2017/18
- The Genetics Society and The University of Birmingham are delighted to announce Rosina Savisaar as the winner of the 2017/18...
International Mendel’s Day
- As part of The Genetics Society Centenary celebrations, we teamed up with the Mendelanium, a museum dedicated to the work...
Centenary Garden@RHS Chelsea Flower Show
- Professor Wendy Bickmore (former President of the Genetics Society and Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit) and fellow members...
Heredity Special Issue: 100 Years of Genetics
- This year marks the centenary of the UK Genetics Society, founded amidst the clash of ideas following the rediscovery of...
Summer Studentship Class of 2019
- Summer Studentship Summer School class of 2019. Congratulations to the 30 lucky students on being selected from over 100 applicants. Held at...
Public Engagement Grants
- Making excellent use of Tier 2 funding for Public Engagement activities, The Roslin Institute can be found at various local...
Mather Memorial Prize 2018/19
- The Genetics Society and The University of Birmingham are delighted to announce Gonçalo Faria as the winner of the 2018/19...
2020 Awards
- The Genetics Society Prize and Medal Winners 2020 are as follows: JBS Haldane Lecture 2010 – Dr Jonathan Pettitt, University...
Geneticist Trumps
- The Genetics Society has produced a Top Trumps-style card game that was sent to every UK secondary school. Update: the...
35 years of DNA Fingerprinting
- The 35th Anniversary of the invent of Genetic Fingerprinting by Sir Alec Jefferys was celebrated at Leicester University on Friday...
Centenary Medal
- Photography: Douglas Vernimmen In his lecture “Progress in Biology”, delivered on March 12th, 1924, on the occasion of the Centenary...
Coronovirus vaccines – how?
- Scientists at the University of Bath Milner Centre are looking at the evolution of Coronovirus to help with the design...
Heredity announces 2020 best student paper prize
- The 2020 Heredity best student-led paper prize has been awarded to Donald McKnight, from James Cook University.. This is the...
2020 Nobel Prize awarded for CRISPR/Cas9 invention
- Emmanuelle Charpentier, director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry at the...
Giles Yeo awarded MBE
- The Genetics Society is delighted to congratulate Dr Giles Yeo on his MBE award announced in the Queens Birthday Honours...
Edith Rebecca Saunders 155th birthday
- Today, 14th October 2020, would have been the 155th birthday of Edith Rebecca (Becky) Saunders, founder of The Genetics Society....