Epigenetics: more than just our genes

Course Programme

10:00 Session 1: What is Epigenetics,  and why does it matter ?

11:15 Coffee

11:45 Session 2: The big data revolution

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Session 3: Epigenetics and disease: when things go wrong

15:15 Tea

15:30 Session 4: Can my lifestyle choices affect the future ?

16:45 Day school ends

Tutor biographies

Dr Basu holds a PhD in Molecular, Cellular and Chemical Biology from Harvard University. He is currently working at the University of Cambridge developing imaging and computational approaches to understand epigenetic proteins in embryonic stem cells. You can often find him spreading his love of biology as a science communicator at the Cambridge Science festival.

Dr Chauve studied at Ecole Normale Superieure and University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris, where she obtained a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology. She uses the nematode C. elegans as a model organism to explore cellular stress responses and their role during ageing. At the moment, her research focuses on gene expression variability between genetically identical individual worms at the Babraham Institute in Cambridge.

Dr Madrigal is an engineer by training and holds a PhD in Bioinformatics from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with the support of a EU Marie Curie fellowship. He has expertise in sequencing data analysis and in developing statistical methodologies for epigenome analysis. As a bioinformatician at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute he aims to map transcriptional and epigenetic signatures of cancer stem cells in haematological malignancies using computational approaches.

Dr. Novo holds a PhD in Genetics from the University of Leicester. Her expertise lies in the molecular mechanisms responsible for genome stability and nuclear organization. Currently, she studies how epigenetics contributes to the three-dimensional genome organisation in embryonic stem cells at the Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Accommodation

Although this is a non-residential course, students requiring accommodation may be able to book B&B at Madingley Hall, as availability permits.

Please contact reservations@madingleyhall.co.uk or +44 (0)1223 746222 for availability and booking enquiries.

Dietary requirements

If you have any specific dietary requirements or allergies please inform our Admissions Team on ice.admissions@ice.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 746262 if you have not already advised us of your requirements.

Additional requirements

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Course materials

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Entry requirements

No academic qualification is required, and most courses are suitable for students who are new to the subject.

All teaching is in English (unless a foreign-language course). If your first language is not English, you need to satisfy yourself that you have the required near-native command of the language to get the maximum benefit from studying with ICE.

This course takes place at Madingley Hall, home to the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

About Madingley Hall

Madingley Hall itself is an impressive manor house dating back to the mid-16th century. The decoration of the Saloon and the formal Stair Hall was carried out 200 years later, and the whole fabric was renovated with great care around 1900. About four miles from the centre of Cambridge, the Hall stands in several acres of beautifully-maintained gardens and overlooks a landscape which has changed relatively little since it was laid out by Capability Brown. It is just four miles from the centre of Cambridge, and only 60 minutes from London, with excellent links to London airports.

Getting here

We now have a mini-bus service which runs between the Railway Station and Madingly Hall weekday mornings between 06:45 and 09:25 and evenings between 16:45 and 19:25. Please contact the reception desk at ICE for more details.

For more information see directions to Madingley Hall.