The CrickConnect team are delighted to be able to invite community members to join us for the institute's regular Crick Lecture.

Crick Lectures provide a broad insight into biomedical research from leading scientists. Not to be missed, the one-hour lectures are the event of the week for the Crick community to come together. The lectures aim to be accessible to scientists across different disciplines, while also offering something for the specialist.

This week Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Professor of Genetics and Physiology at Imperial College London, and MRC Investigator at the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences gives the lecture - "The sex and geometry of inter-organ communication"

There will also be an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends over refreshments after the Lecture from 17:00. If you are able to join us in person at the Crick please let us know at connect@crick.ac.uk so we can arrange access.

Irene Miguel-Aliaga

Irene trained as a biochemist in Barcelona, Spain and received her PhD in Genetics from the University of Oxford (UK). She investigated how neurons develop and function during postdoctoral work at Harvard (USA), Linköping University (Sweden) and NIMR (UK).

Irene has a long-standing interest in organ plasticity: how and why fully developed organs change their shape, function and/or communication across the life course. Her lab was one of the first to tackle the study of brain-gut physiology using the powerful genetics of Drosophila: work that they have now extended to mouse and human models.

Irene has been awarded three ERC grants. She has been elected to the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, EMBO and the EMBO YIP programme. She has won a Suffrage Science Women in Science award and the Genetics Society Mary Lyon Medal.