Wednesday, November 27, 2013
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Level 0 auditorium between Ibn Al-Haytham and Ibn Sina (buildings 2 and 3)
The BESE Division and its associated Centers are pleased to announce a special one-day event to encourage curiosity and inspire fresh thoughts among faculty, researchers, and students. The event will include discussions on general cutting edge concepts which drive the current and future research that attempts to understand the mechanisms by which the genome learns, memorizes and interacts with the environment. In a word: epigenetics.
The Epigenetics Day will be a major cultural event, open for everyone to attend and disseminate Epigenetics research within KAUST. The program includes distinguished speakers, who will present general lectures on hot topics in the field, which will certainly offer inspiration to those attendees outside of the biology field.
The agenda for the day will be divided in two sessions. The first session is scheduled for the morning, and will involve an introduction to the event and the KAUST Environmental Epigenetics Research Program (KEEP), to be followed by several lectures. The second session will involve the final lecture and the projection of a pluri-awarded movie about Epigenetics called “The Hidden Life of Our Genes”, produced by the European Epigenesis Network of Excellence. The program will move on to a final open discussion, about what is beyond the DNA code that allows complex organisms to interact with the environment.
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This initiative is part of the establishment of the highly innovative and competitive KAUST Environmental Epigenetics Research Program (KEEP). KEEP will produce world-class unique research, and aims to contribute deeply to the unique, technology-driven, collaborative environment that KAUST has created.