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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,”...
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....
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,...
EpiCenter publication: "Environmental Politics of Reproduction"
What constitutes “human reproduction” is under negotiation as its biology, social nature, and cultural valences are increasingly...
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...