Edith Heard

My guest today has done something rather similar in genetics.

Edith Heard has forged new paths in epigenetics, put simply the science around how our genes are switched on and off.

She's spent her career studying the mechanisms that make us who we are and transforming our understanding of how X chromosomes are expressed.

Today, Edith is director of London's Francis Crick Institute and holds the Chair of Epigenetics and Cellular Memory at the Collège de France in Paris.

Not bad for someone who describes her younger self as a shy, introverted child who would hide under the sofa with a book to avoid the noisy household goings-on.

Maybe it comes down to good genes.

Edith Heard, welcome to Life Scientific.

Thank you.