Classical Genetic Research and its Legacy

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published numerous papers and books in molecular biology and the history of science, including a co-edited collection, The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution (2000). Jean-Paul Gaudillière is a senior researcher at the National Institute of Health (INSERM), Paris. His work has addressed many aspects of the history of molecular biology and of the biomedical sciences during the twentieth century. His contemporary research focuses on the history of biological drugs. He is the co-editor of Heredity and Infection: A History of Disease Transmission (2002).

• Section 1: Mendelian Genetics and Linkage Mapping 1. Jonathan Harwood . Linkage before Mendelism? Plant-Breeding Research in Central Europe, ca 1880-1910 2. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. Carl Correns and the Early History of Genetic Linkage 3. Raphael Falk . Applying and Extending the Notion of Genetic Linkage - The First Fifty Years 4. Lisa Gannett and James R. Griesmer. Classical Genetics and the Geography of Genes Section 2: Mapping Work, Mapping Collectives, Mapping Cultures 5. Lee B. Kass and Christophe Bonneuil. Mapping and Seeing: Barbara Mcclintock and the Linking of Genetics and Cytology in Maize Genetics, 1928-35 6. Lisa Gannett and James R. Griesemer . The ABO Blood Groups: Mapping the History and Geography of Genes in Homo sapiens 7. Jean-Paul Gaudillière. Mapping as Technology: Genes, Mutant Mice, and Biomedical Research (1910-65)