Name: Worm tales and why they matter to us
Start: 2015-05-18T
End: 2015-05-18T
Location: Wig and Pen

Want to learn the secret to how and why we age? Well in order to understand more about just how we develop from egg to adult, and why we get old and wrinkly, we will be getting up close and personal with live nematode worms! Join us to find out just what this humble model organism can tell us about our own bodies.

Worm tales and why they matter to us

Karolina Chocian

Professor Alison Woollard

Professor Alison Woollard, presenter of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2013, is joined by Karolina Chocian to explore what the nematode worm can tell us about the human body. How do we develop from egg to adult? How do cells know what to do, and why must some of them die? How and why do we age?

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