Academic Talk | Development of an RNA Editing Therapy for Dravet Syndrome 🧬🧠
05/11/2026 | 17:00 - 18:00

UCL Genetics Society is excited to welcome you to our second academic talk of the year! 🎉

Gene therapies are opening up exciting new possibilities for treating genetic disorders. But what if, instead of permanently altering DNA, we could correct the genetic instructions carried by RNA to treat disease?

For this event, we are delighted to welcome Dr Ellie Chilcott, Senior Research Fellow at the

Bacterial Genetics and Evolution Journal Club | Luria & Delbrück (1943)
24/11/2026 | 18:00 - 19:00

🧑‍🔬 Speakers: Professor Wenying Shou & Dr Kabir Husain
📅 Date: 24 November 2026
⏰ Time: 18:00-19:00
📍 Location: Room W3.05, IOE Bedford Way (20)
📑 Paper: Luria & Delbrück (1943), Mutations of Bacteria from Virus Sensitivity to Virus Resistance

Do bacteria become resistant because a virus forces them to adapt or do resistant mutations arise randomly before the virus ever