Epigenetics – Tonight

Epigenetics the subject of next Arthur Whiteley Lecture.

On Thursday February 21, Charles Laird, Professor of Biology at the University of Washington, Associate Director for Fragile X Research in the University’s Center on Human Development and Disability, will present a lecture entitled Epigenetic information channels the genome: insights from human disease. Epigenetics is a rapidly growing research field that investigates heritable alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence.

Professor Laird received his BS from the University of Oregon, and his PhD from Stanford University. He was a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin prior to joining the University of Washington in 1971. He has also taught or carried out research at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, the Zoology Institute of the University of Zurich, the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (Cambridge), the Department of Genetics at Cambridge University, the Zoology Department at University of Bergen, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

7 p.m. The Commons, Friday Harbor Labs. Public lecture open to all.
Free, though donations gratefully accepted.
San Juan Nature Institute offers the Arthur Whiteley lectures in collaboration with UW Friday Harbor Labs as one of its four core programs.

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