Exhibitions
Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg
Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form.
Genome Lates: The Radioactive Dogs of Chernobyl
Fri 7 December 2018
Wellcome Genome Campus Conference Centre
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 has had many effects and outcomes in the intervening 32 years, but perhaps one of that we don't think so much about are the animals left behind. In 2018 the Wellcome Sanger Institute's Dr Alex Cagan visited the Chernobyl exclusion zone to collect DNA samples from the large stray dog population that now resides in the area. In this talk Alex will share how these samples can be studied, and how, in the face of disaster, the zone now presents an excellent natural experiment for studying a lot of biological questions.
This talk is part of our Curious Nature programme, and you will also have the chance to visit the Genome Gallery and the Curious Nature exhibition. Our bar will be open throughout the event serving a range of alcoholic, soft and hot drinks.
Event schedule:
6pm: Event opens. Opportunity to visit the exhibition
6.30pm: Talk begins
7.40pm: Opportunity to visit the exhibition
8.30pm: Event ends
Cost: Free
Enquiries and booking
Please note that booking is required for this event.
Website Email: engage@wellcomegenomecampus.org
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