How Experiences Becomes Biology
About this Event
Talks on Tuesdays is a live event series bringing big ideas, real experts, and curious minds together - at your favourite local venues. Think thought-provoking lectures, audience questions, and post-talk mingling over drinks and dinner.
This isn’t a uni lecture. It’s a social, intelligent night out.Come alone or with friends, leave with something to talk about.
Event Schedule:
6.30pm Arrival & Doors Open
7pm Lecuture Starts
7.45pm Q&A
8pm Talk Concludes
8.30pm Event Closes.
*Please arrive close to 6.30pm
A La Carte menu and full bar available throughout the night - pay as you go.
Your Topic:
How Experiences Becomes Biology: The epigenetic pathways linking early life
How do our earliest experiences shape who we become? This talk explores how early life experiences "get under the skin" by altering the epigenetic marks that regulate our genes, subsequently influencing how the brain develops and affecting health across the lifespan.Professor of Neuroscience, Richelle Mychasiuk will explain why DNA is not destiny,revealing how early life adversity can modify gene expression to increase both susceptibility to—and resiliency against—physical and mental health conditions later in life.
Your Speaker:
Professor Richelle Mychasiuk
Richelle Mychasiuk is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, within the School of Medical Sciences, at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney. With over 200 publications, Dr. Mychasiuk has a wealth of knowledge. She is particularly interested in understanding the effects that perinatal trauma and adverse childhood experiences have on adolescent neurodevelopment, with a specific focus on how these processes differ for males and females. She is also a co-founder of the GIN Discovery Program – an interdisciplinary research initiative centred on the Gut Immune-Brain axis, that brings together >180 scientists and clinicians that are committed to accelerating medical breakthroughs within this realm
What is the GIN Program?
The Gut, Immune and Neuro (GIN) Program is a collaborative network of researchers investigating how the gut, immune system, and brain work together to influence human health. Bringing together scientists from across Australia, the program explores everything from microbes and molecules to cognition and disease, helping translate complex discoveries into knowledge that benefits the wider community.
Agenda
🕑: 06:30 PM
Doors open and arrival
🕑: 07:00 PM
Speaker starts
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
AUD 27.78
