Author(s)

Edith Heard

Presentation

How is the information contained in our genes read, memorized and interpreted? What mechanisms control gene expression in an individual or across generations? The understanding of these mechanisms is crucial to knowledge on life forms.

Epigenetics studies the influence of a genome’s cellular history on the way in which it is read. Since the sequencing of the complete human genome in the early twenty-first century, epigenetics has also given rise to the hope that we are “more” than the sequencing of our genes. This is probably why there is currently a huge upsurge of interest in this discipline.

This book was published with the support of the Collège de France Foundation: https://www.fondation-cdf.fr.

Edith Heard is a geneticist. After her studies in the natural sciences at Cambridge University, she earned a PhD from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London. She is currently Head of the Genetics and Developmental Biology Department, and Group Leader of the “Mammalian Developmental Epigenetics Team”, at the Institut Curie. Since 2012 she has been a Professor of the Collège de France, where she holds the Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory.

ISBN
978-2-7226-0654-8
Publication date
Language
anglais
Translator
Liz Libbrecht
Price
7.99 €
Distribution
OpenEdition
Format
Édition numérique

Table of contents

Serge Haroche : Introduction

Alain Prochiantz : Foreword

Edith Heard : Epigenetics and Cellular Memory

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