Prof Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
To celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th year anniversary, the RCSI Annual Outreach Lecture 2009 will focus on the theme of Evolution. Prof Jennifer Graves, renowned leader in the Australian and international cell biology, genetics and genomics communities, will speak on ‘The Decline and Fall of the Y Chromosome and the Future of Men’. The lecture will take place on Wednesday 20th May at 7pm in the O'Flanagan Lecture Theatre, RCSI.
Prof Graves is particularly well known for her theories of the origin and evolution of human sex chromosomes and sex determining genes, and her dire prediction that the Y chromosome will disappear.
In this lecture, Prof Graves will outline why the human Y chromosome is running out of time and how it could lose its last 45 genes in just 10 million years. What happens when SRY disappears? Would this be the end of the line for humans? Professor Graves explains the latest scientific research and discuss why, as the human Y runs out of options, new sex determining genes may evolve, potentially leading to different hominid species.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For booking enquiries please contact outreach@rcsi.
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