EpiCenter publication: early mammalian germ cells are highly sensitive to environmental exposures
In mammalian embryos, the early germ cells, termed Primordial Germ Cells, undergo a highly specialized differentiation program associated...
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EpiCenter Epigenetics, Reproduction, and Society
- Oct 6, 2021
EpiCenter publication: How do you define epigenetics?
Epigenetic concepts are fundamentally shaped by a legacy of negative definition, often understood by what they are not. Epimutation and...
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- Oct 6, 2021
EpiCenter publication: What Is Lost in the Weismann Barrier?
In this publication, we revisit the long-standing view that info rmation can only move from the germline to the soma and not the other...
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- Nov 6, 2020
The Allard lab participates in the Beyond Genes conference!
This first edition of the Beyond Genes conference has been collaboratively organized by researchers, clinicians and research advocates,...
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- Oct 30, 2019
EpiCenter publication: "Epigenetics in the Public Sphere"
This article aims to promote an open-minded and interdisciplinary dialogue between the public discourse on epigenetics and the current...
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- Sep 6, 2019
Social Studies of Epigenetics at the 4S Meeting, New Orleans
Dr. Anne Le Goff will participate at a roundtable on “the Politics of ‘Developmental Origins’: Biological Mattering and Social Justice,”...
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- Aug 25, 2019
Vulnerability of Germ Cells: Ethics in the Time of Epigenetics
The Weismann barrier is not as impervious as previously thought—this is what epidemiological and animal studies in epigenetics suggest....
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- Aug 25, 2019
Epigenetics and the Public Sphere
Epigenetics has sometimes been described as a “buzzword” or a “fashion.” A quick look on the web suggests that epigenetics is, indeed,...
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- Jul 23, 2019
EpiCenter publication: "Environmental Politics of Reproduction"
What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and cultural valences are increasingly...
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- Jan 8, 2019
Histone Modifications: Epigenetic Mediators of Environmental Exposure Memory
How organisms retain a memory of ancestral environmental exposure is a phenomenon that is still poorly understood. Recently published...
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- Jan 8, 2019
Collaboration between the EpiCenter and Science Po in Grenoble, France
The exciting collaboration focuses on the advances in the field of Toxico-Epigenomics and the scientific, industrial, and regulatory...
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- Jan 7, 2019
The Allard Lab presenting at the "Epigenetic Inheritance: Impact for Biology and Society"
"Epigenetic Inheritance: Impact for Biology and Society" at ETH Zürich on Aug 26-28, 2019. https://www.epigenetic-inheritance-zurich.ethz...
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- May 22, 2018
Organisms remember ancestral environmental chemical exposure
In this new study, Camacho and colleagues reveal that exposure to the plastic chemical Bisphenol A causes a transgenerational impact on...
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- Dec 12, 2017
New evidence of transgenerational impact of ancestral obesogen exposure
Bruce Blumberg and colleagues describe how exposure to the obesogen tributyltin (TBT), an antifouling agent added to paint, alters the...
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- Nov 1, 2017
Ancient viral DNA mimics cellular components to become inherited
A paper recently published in Current Biology examines how some mobile element in the genomes of animals have the ability to mimic...
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- Oct 31, 2017
The UCLA EpiCenter welcomes new fellow Anne Le Goff
We are pleased to announce that Anne Le Goff joins the UCLA EpiCenter research team as post-doctoral fellow. Dr Le Goff received her...
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- Oct 2, 2017
UCLA's Institute for Society & Genetics receives prestigious John Templeton Foundation award
Dr Landecker and Dr Allard from the UCLA's Institute for Society & Genetics as well as Dr Amander Clark from UCLA's Molecular, Cell and...
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