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Previously, the film 'Orígenes', winner of the best film prize of the Sitges festival, will be screened |

Does the environment in which the parents live, can affect the genetic inheritance of the children?

How does our DNA respond when it receives environmental or other stimuli?

To these questions, among many others, is intended to answer the epinegética.

A bridge between the effect on us of the genetic and environmental influences of Miguel Navarro Carretero, a Cartago doctor in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Scientific Researcher of the Higher Scientific Research Council (CSIC), this Friday, February 17 in the Hall Of Acts of the Cultural Center, from 20:00 hours.

A talk-colloquy with the title 'Epigenetics and its implications in everyday life', which is part of the program Read, Think and Imagine, whose organization collaborates with the City of Cartagena.

Previously, at 18:30, the film 'Origins' of director Mike Cahill, the best film award at the 2014 Sitges Film Festival, will be screened, in an original subtitled version, which presents a fiction around which a scientist arrives at Amazing discoveries that could vary the shape of our perception of life

The scientist and researcher will talk about this new expression of genetics that has come to revolutionize the classic concept of inheritance, and especially how important epinegetic research to improve our lives.

Miguel Navarro is an internationally recognized scientist and has been featured in such prestigious journals as Nature for his work on epigenetic regulation of parasites responsible for diseases such as malaria and sleeping sickness.

He was appointed as an international researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute of the USA (HHMI), being the first Spanish to obtain significant financial aid for HHMI research in the area of ​​infectious and parasitic diseases.

He is currently involved in projects in the United Kingdom, USA, in the National Plan of Biomedicine, and in the Research Network of Infectious Disease Centers, an activity that is compatible with the management of his work group at the CSIC.

Both the Talk Colloquy of Miguel Navarro and the previous screening of the film are free entry to fill capacity

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena