Can We Change Our Genes?

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Logistics

  • Wednesday, October 30 | 7:00 – 9:00 pm
  • Offering Format: Public Event, Lecture
  • Recommended for grade 12 and adults
  • Cahners Theater
  • Free; register online

    • Associated Persons

    Tim Spector, MD, professor of genetic epidemiology, King’s College London; director of the TwinsUK Registry; author, Identically Different: Why We Can Change Our Genes

Description

If you share most of the same genetic material, what makes you so different from your siblings? How much are the things you choose to do every day — what you eat, how you vote, whom you love — determined by your genes, and how much is your own free will?

Using fascinating case studies of identical twins, leading geneticist Tim Spector explains how even real-life "clones" with the same upbringing turn out in reality to be unique. Join us at the inaugural Lee and Nile Albright Annual Symposium for a compelling examination of how we become the individuals that we are. Book signing to follow.

Advance registration begins at 9:00 a.m., Wednesday, October 16 (Monday, October 14 for Museum members).

Funding provided by the Lee and Nile Albright Annual Symposium Fund. Additional funding provided by the Lowell Institute.

Photo © TwinsUKRegistry