MRC Festival of Medical Research

  • Mairead Lesley Bermingham (Organiser)

Activity: Participating in or organising an event typesPublic Engagement – Festival/Exhibition

Description

Power of people in genetic research: Understanding Rare Diseases

I prepared and presented a poster on using genome sequence data to help understand rare diseases. I also discussed how facial images can be used to diagnose rare disease, and unravel genetic influences on facial features of healthy individuals.
Period17 Jun 2017
Event typeConference
LocationEdinburgh, United KingdomShow on map

Keywords

  • Rare Diseases
  • Genome sequence data
  • Facial images
  • Diagnose
  • Genetic influences
  • facial features
  • healthy individuals