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The Tuesday Lunch Series welcomes Jeff Thompson, associate professor of biology and computer science, presenting “Epigenetics: The Party-Planning Guide of Genetic Inheritance.”
The role of genetic inheritance in defining physical characteristics in living organisms has been well established for over a century. But over the past several decades, genetic researchers have come to identify additional factors that drive these characteristics. “Epigenetics” describes inheritable elements that operate above-and-beyond genetic features, genes/DNA, to shape the characteristics of an individual and their descendants.
In this talk, Thompson will outline current understanding of epigenetic inheritance and describe some examples of epigenetic phenomena, including work done recently in his lab to investigate the role that epigenetic inheritance plays in the cellular response to DNA damage caused by UV radiation.