Where’s Dolly? Another metadata game TAGS: crowdsourcing | dolly the sheep | Library | library labs | Metadata Games | roslin | science on a plate | Towards Dolly The Towards Dolly project, showcasing research from genetics at the Roslin Institute, has helped surface lots of interesting material within the library, not least at the current exhibition. One of …Continue reading →

Dolly on Display TAGS: Exhibition | Festival | Fringe | Towards Dolly

Sheep Showcase TAGS: Annexe | CRC | Dolly | Fringe | genetics | Sheep | Special Collections | Towards Dolly | University of Edinburgh Have you ever met Jordan, the Library Cat? What if there was another furry animal in the Library, maybe not as alive, but nonetheless as interesting? The Main Library’s newest …Continue reading →

Edinburgh’s first geneticist: Arthur Darbishire (1879-1915) TAGS: animal genetics | genetics | Towards Dolly | Untold stories In 1911, the University of Edinburgh appointed its first Lecturer in Genetics. The Lectureship was the first academic genetics post in Britain – the Balfour Chair in Genetics at the …Continue reading →

Dolly Pops Up… TAGS: dolly the sheep | Towards Dolly Did you know that Edinburgh has been a world leader in genetics for over a century? And that there’s definitely more to cloning than just Dolly the sheep? Come to …Continue reading →

Innovative Learning Week at University of Edinburgh TAGS: Godfrey Thomson Project | Library | Towards Dolly The Digital Imaging Unit filmed various Pecha Kucha as part of Innovative Learning Week February 2014. A few of the talks are available on the CRC Facebook page at : …Continue reading →

Analogue Photoshop? TAGS: Towards Dolly This week we started a trial – photographing some Glass Lantern Slides for the Towards Dolly Project, & one of the first images we took showed that there is nothing …Continue reading →