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SUMMARY:HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it importan
 t? - Sir David Baulcombe\, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Pr
 ofessor\, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 
DTSTART:20200226T180000Z
DTEND:20200226T190000Z
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:"Epigenetics has always been all the weird and wonderful thing
 s that can't be explained by genetics."\nDenise Barlow (Vienna\, Austria)\
 n\nSome of these ‘weird and wonderful things’ challenge Mendel’s law
 s of inheritance and they have prompted suggestions that there may even be
  some epigenetic inheritance of acquired characteristics\, as proposed by 
 Lamarck.\n\nIn my lecture I will assess these suggestions using evidence b
 ased on recent advances in epigenetics.  Most of my examples are with plan
 ts but\, because Mendel showed us that peas can inform thinking about inhe
 ritance in people\, we can\, perhaps\, use these green findings to guide t
 hinking about epigenetic inheritance more generally.     \n\n 
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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