{"id":1796,"date":"2018-05-17T16:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/?page_id=1796"},"modified":"2018-05-17T16:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T15:23:14","slug":"24th-of-february-2018-genetics-matters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/24th-of-february-2018-genetics-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"24th of February 2018 &#8211; Genetics Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thank you to all the presenters and participants of our annual Genetics Matters event celebrating rare disease research in the North East for making it a great success! With over 80 participants and over 50 presenters, it was a great day at the Centre for Life with scientific presentations, hands on science and research tables by many groups and charity organsations interested in finding cures for rare genetic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>For a video of the event, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/genetics-matters-video-is-here\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Videos of the presentations have been uploaded <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/genetics-matters-2018-presentations\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And click here for some photos of the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/01\/Genetics-Matters-2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1758\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/01\/Genetics-Matters-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/01\/Genetics-Matters-2018.jpg 793w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/01\/Genetics-Matters-2018-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/01\/Genetics-Matters-2018-768x1090.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/01\/Genetics-Matters-2018-722x1024.jpg 722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/GeneticsMatters2018-AGENDAa-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1777\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/GeneticsMatters2018-AGENDAa-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"1240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/GeneticsMatters2018-AGENDAa-1.jpg 875w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/GeneticsMatters2018-AGENDAa-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/GeneticsMatters2018-AGENDAa-1-768x1088.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/GeneticsMatters2018-AGENDAa-1-723x1024.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/participants.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1778\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/participants.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1092\" height=\"872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/participants.png 1092w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/participants-300x240.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/participants-768x613.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2018\/02\/participants-1024x818.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1092px) 100vw, 1092px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all the presenters and participants of our annual Genetics Matters event celebrating rare disease research in the North East for making it a great success! With over 80 participants and over 50 presenters, it was a great day at the Centre for Life with scientific presentations, hands on science and research tables &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/24th-of-february-2018-genetics-matters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">24th of February 2018 &#8211; Genetics Matters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5074,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1796","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}