Dolly at 30: The Life and Legacy of a Cloned Sheep

Hassun El-Zafar is Chief Executive Officer of Edinburgh Science Foundation, the organisation behind Edinburgh Science Festival. A former science teacher, he works at the intersection of science, art and public engagement.

Professor Andrew Kitchener is Principal Curator of Vertebrates at National Museums Scotland, where he is responsible for the care and development of the vertebrate collections, including Dolly the sheep.  

Sophie Goggins is Senior Curator of Biomedical Science at National Museums Scotland. She is responsible for the medical collection including her particular specialism, contemporary biomedicine. 

Christine Tait-Burkard is a group leader at The Roslin Institute where her research builds on the institute’s legacy of pioneering animal biotechnology established through the creation of Dolly the sheep. 

Miguel García-Sancho is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation Studies of the University of Edinburgh. He led the project “Historicising Dolly” which placed the first cloned sheep within a broader trajectory of animal breeding research.

Dimitry Myelnikov is a historian of biology and medicine, and a Teaching Associate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. As part of the “Historicising Dolly” project, he researched the history of the Roslin Institute and its transition to genetic engineering and cloning research in the 1980s.

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