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Building brains from genes: Café Scientifique

Come and join Associate Professors Liz Tunbridge and Esther Becker for a discussion of the many ways that genes influence brain function, and how understanding these links is relevant to health and disease.

Add to Calendar 10/16/19 06:00 PM 10/16/19 07:00 PM United Kingdom (GMT) Building brains from genes: Café Scientifique <p>Associate Professors Liz Tunbridge and Esther Becker for a discussion of the many ways that genes influence brain function.</p> The Barbican Centre
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Come and join Associate Professors Liz Tunbridge and Esther Becker for a discussion of the many ways that genes influence brain function, and how understanding these links is relevant to health and disease.

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For all enquiries please contact events@royalsociety.org.

This Café Scientifique is an open scientific discussion. The Cafés are dialogue-based and allow time for discussion between and amongst the audience and the speaker, where you’re encouraged not just to bring an enquiring mind, but your own thoughts and questions.

This event is part of the Switching Perceptions series, 12 - 20 October 2019.

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