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Speakers:
Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London
We each have roughly 25,000 genes, all telling the body’s cells what to do. But how do the minor life events and the choices we make fuse with our inherited genes to make us who we are?
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and expert on epigenetics Tim Spector draws on his intensive research in the scientific field of epigenetics – the study of how our environment influences whether particular genes are switched on or off – to answer these questions, and came to the SMC to discuss with science reporters his latest book Identically Different: Why you can change your genes.