Jos de Mul. 2017-08-28 Biology beyond genes. Psychiatry in the age of postgenomics. Invited lecture in the series Herman van Praag Lectures 2017. Utrecht: Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht. Maandag 28 augustus 2018.
Short bi(bli)ography Jos de Mul
Jos de Mul (
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The focus of his last NWO-project (2012-2016), in which he collaborated, among others, with molecular biologist Frank Grosveld (Erasmus MC) and physiologist Denis Noble (Oxford University), was on the impact of the postgenomic turn in biology for human self-understanding. In 2015 he wrote a lengthy introduction and commentary for the Dutch translation of Denis Noble’s book The Music of Life. Biology Beyond Genes (Oxford UP, 2006 / Amsterdam UP, 2015).
Herman van Praag Lectures 2017.
23 January 2017 - Nikolaos Koutsouleris
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich – Germany20 February 2017 - Terry Jernigan
Center for Human Developments, San Diego – US13 March 2017- Akira Sawa
Johns Hopkins Schizophrenia Center, Baltimore – US27 March 2017 – Machteld Huber
Institute for Positive Health – The Netherlands10 April 2017 - Merete Nordentoft
University Copenhagen – Denmark8 May 2017 - Kerstin Konrad
RWTH Aachen University – Germany26 June 2017 - Jonathan Flint
UCLA, Los Angeles – US28 August 2017 - Jos de Mul
Erasmus University, Rotterdam - The Netherlands25 September 2017 - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
University of Oxford – UK23 October 2017 - David Glahn
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven – US27 November 2017 - Dorothy Bishop
University of Oxford – UK
2017-08-28 (UMC Utrecht) Biology beyond genes. Psychiatry in the age of postgenomics
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