{"id":2006,"date":"2019-02-25T12:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2019-02-28T14:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:48:57","slug":"the-5th-edition-of-genetics-matters-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/2019\/02\/25\/the-5th-edition-of-genetics-matters-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5th edition of Genetics Matters a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The 5th edition of our flagship Genetics Matters event took place in our Institute on the 23rd of February. The event was very well attended, the presentations sparked lively and interesting discussions and we had a special reel showing in our Black Box.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thank you all for coming on a sunny Saturday afternoon (and a match day!) to celebrate genetic research in Newcastle and to raise awareness of rare disease and the need for rare disease research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/Genetics-Matters-agenda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1958\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/Genetics-Matters-agenda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"942\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/Genetics-Matters-agenda.jpg 942w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/Genetics-Matters-agenda-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/Genetics-Matters-agenda-768x978.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/Genetics-Matters-agenda-805x1024.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/FB_IMG_1550966149972.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2007\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/FB_IMG_1550966149972.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/FB_IMG_1550966149972.jpg 720w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/files\/2019\/02\/FB_IMG_1550966149972-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000\"><em>Thank you very much for the wonderful afternoon, it helped me a lot with deciding academic science and researches\u2019 role in the practice of Medicine &#8211; <\/em>participant<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000\">The format was very good and the cakes very moreish!! The Pop Up cinema was an excellent idea. &#8211; <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #008000\">participant<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000\">The 2 talks I heard [..] were both absolutely outstanding and interesting for me to hear as a researcher and clinician. &#8211; <\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #008000\">presenter<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5th edition of our flagship Genetics Matters event took place in our Institute on the 23rd of February. The event was very well attended, the presentations sparked lively and interesting discussions and we had a special reel showing in our Black Box. Thank you all for coming on a sunny Saturday afternoon (and a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/2019\/02\/25\/the-5th-edition-of-genetics-matters-a-success\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The 5th edition of Genetics Matters a success<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}