The Honors College Distinguished Lecture Series
Monday, Feb. 10, 6:30 p.m. in the Honors Hall Lounge, Room 110
Your grandmother has some explaining to do. What she was exposed to during pregnancy could make you more susceptible to disease, and you’re going to pass that on to your grandchildren as well, despite never having been directly exposed.
School of Biological Sciences Professor Michael Skinner will discuss this syndrome-the genesis of disease in an individual, influenced by distant relatives-when he delivers his presentation titled “Environmentally Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease and Evolution: Ancestral Ghosts in Your Genome.”
One of Skinner’s mottos for research is “If you are not doing something controversial, you are not doing something important.”
Dr. Skinner received the American Ingenuity Award from the Smithsonian in the natural science category. Skinner is renowned in his field and has to his credit more than 240 peer reviewed publications and 250 invited symposia, plenary lectures and university seminars. He also established the Washington State University and University of Idaho Center for Reproductive Biology (CRB) in 1996, and the Center for Integrated Biotechnology (CIB) n 2002. His research has been highlighted in BBC, Smithsonian and PBS documentaries and selected as top 100 discoveries in 2005 and 2007 by Discover.
