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SUMMARY:The Saunders Genetics Lecture 2020 - Professor Dame Linda Partridg
 e
DTSTART:20200224T163000Z
DTEND:20200224T173000Z
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CONTACT:Charlotte Groocock
DESCRIPTION:This will be the second of a prestigious series of lectures he
 ld in commemoration of the life and work of Edith Rebecca (Becky) Saunders
  who made major contributions to the understanding of genetics and heredit
 y at the beginning of the 20th century.  Saunders entered Newnham College 
 in 1884\, continued her postgraduate research as a Bathurst student from 1
 888 to 1889\, and later became the director of the Balfour Biological Labo
 ratory for Women in 1899.  She was Director of Studies for Natural Science
 s at Newnham between 1918 and 1925 and President of the Genetical Society 
 from 1936-1938.\n \nThe Saunders Genetics Lectures celebrates the best con
 temporary research in Genetics today\, with invited speakers being selecte
 d for their contribution to research which resonates with the activities o
 f the Department of Genetics and across the School of Biological Sciences.
 \n\nWe are delighted to welcome Professor Dame Linda Partridge\, Director 
 of the Institute of Healthy Ageing at UCL and the founding director of the
  Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne\, Germany as our sp
 eaker for the 2020 Saunders Lecture.  The title of Linda’s talk is “Ca
 n we cure ageing?”.\n"https://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/department/the-inaugural
 -saunders-genetics-lecture-2020":URL
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building\, New Museums 
 Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB
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