Public Meeting on Six Decades of Research in the Adrian Building and 40 Years of Genetic Fingerprinting

Public meeting commemorating the history of research in the Adrian Building and the 40^th anniversary of the publication of Sir Alec Jeffreys’ papers on genetic fingerprinting.

To commemorate the closing of the University’s Adrian Building in which Sir Alec Jeffreys discovered genetic fingerprinting and, coincidentally, marking the 40^th anniversary of the publication of his seminal work, the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Cancer Sciences (GGCS) is holding a meeting that is open to the public on Saturday October 11^th in Sir Bob Burgess Building Lecture Theatre 2 on Welford Rd. The Adrian was also where Turi King analysed the genome of the ‘skeleton in the car park’ that was to be Richard III. The building has housed four departments over the past six decades, Zoology, Botany, Biochemistry and Genetics, which have all contributed to major research advances.  As well as two speakers associated with Sir Alec, there will be past and current representatives of these four departments that will provide both historical and modern perspectives of the work performed in this iconic building. Turi King will end the meeting with a glimpse into our DNA which mirrors her BBC2 series ‘DNA family secrets’ that she has been hosting with Stacey Dooley for several seasons.