SAiGENCI Annual Public Lecture - Decoding Cancer: How epigenetics could solve the cancer riddle
Held on Tuesday 21 May in the Braggs Lecture Theatre, the SAiGENCI Annual Public Lecture was a great success with 230 attending the live event and 50 viewing online.
Professor Jose Polo
This year's topic was Decoding Cancer: How epigenetics could solve the cancer riddle, presented by Professor Jose Polo, Director of the Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics (ACE) and Program Lead, Cancer Epigenetics with SAiGENCI and Dr Adrienne Sullivan, Head of the Development and Epigenetics Laboratory at ACE and Cancer Epigenetics program at SAiGENCI.
Our expert researchers discussed the fascinating connection between cancer and epigenetics. Epigenetic 'marks' are small changes within the genomes in our DNA that control which genes are expressed by different cells. The audience learned how these tiny molecular signatures can decide the fate of cells, shaping the onset and progression of cancer.
Dr Adrienne Sullivan
Following the lecture, audience members were given the opportunity to ask questions, meet the speakers and our cancer research team.