The In Vitro Condition: Nutritional Epigenetics and the Human Milieu

 

Hannah Landecker, UCLA

Associate Professor of Sociology at the Center for Society and Genetics

 

How do the social and the biological go together in new life science models of epigenetic plasticity? This talk discusses the way in which cells, nutrient media, people, and food are connected in experimental settings, as nutrition comes under scientific scrutiny as a determinant of gene expression.