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Have you ever wondered why identical twins aren’t exactly identical? Or perhaps why we don’t have teeth in our eyeballs? Well epigenetics has the answers.
Epigenetics is the study of how the expression of our genes is influenced by environmental factors and how the effects of these influences may be inherited by our children. This Big Question Lecture organised by Centre of the Cell in conjunction with the London Epigenetics Club will provide an introduction to epigenetics and how it works, explain some interesting examples and discuss how research into epigenetics is offering scientists exciting new opportunities to understand and treat diseases.
The lecture will last for 45-50 minutes and will be followed by a question and answer session. There will then be an opportunity to meet and talk to scientists who are working in the field of epigenetics. This second part of the evening will be accompanied by some light snacks and will run until 8pm in the reception to the Perrin Lecture Theatre.
Visitors aged 14 years and over only.