Tag: IGMM
As a PhD student very interested in gene regulation who is passionate about supporting women in science, I was very keen to talk to one of the MRC Human Genetics Unit’s new group leaders, Hannah Long. Hannah has recently moved from Stanford to Edinburgh to start her own group here. I sat down with Hannah […]
In January, Wolf Reik came to the IGMM to speak at the weekly seminar series. Wolf is a leading scientist in the field of epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of changes in cells which affect gene activity rather than altering the actual genetic sequence. This usually involves some kind of reversible chemical modification to the […]
The IGMM lecture theatre was packed with people on the 12th November, eager to listen to Steve Jackson’s seminar, which was entitled ‘Cellular responses to DNA damage: mechanistic insights and clinical applications’. I did my undergraduate project in Steve’s lab two years ago, so I was interested to see what they’ve been up to since […]