Speakers

Anne Ferguson-Smith is the Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics and Head of the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge. She received her PhD from the Department of Biology at Yale University studying the functional genomic organisation of mammalian Hox clusters and subsequently conducted postdoctoral work with Prof Azim Surani where she contributed to the identification of the first imprinted genes and identified parental-specific DNA methylation. For the past two decades, her team has continued to study genomic imprinting in development and disease, but more recently, its work has focused on the epigenetic control of genome function in a wider context. Her current research focuses on three themes - stem cells and the epigenetic programme; genome-epigenome interactions; and mammalian development, environment and disease. She is a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, an elected member of EMBO and a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences.