# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Free Hybrid Lecture: Whose Genes? What Genes Can (and Can’t) Explain About Life
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 21 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 21 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Speakers:
Daniel Faccini, PhD Candidate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Neil S. Greenspan, Professor Emeritus of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University; a Senior Editor, Pathogens and Immunity

Julius Tabin, PhD Candidate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

What exactly is a gene? What can genes really tell us about the evolution of life and human beings? These are some of the questions behind Whose Genes?–a project funded by the Harvard President’s Building Bridges Fund. Drawing on interviews with Harvard faculty and questions gathered from the broader community, the project explores both shared ground and points of debate in contemporary genetics, bringing together diverse perspectives on one of biology’s most enduring and contested questions: How do genes shape organisms, identities, and evolution? 

Join us for a public conversation around this question. Audience members are invited to complete this short anonymous survey in advance and to bring their own questions about evolution, inheritance, and the limits of genetic explanations.

Advance registration is recommended: 
https://tinyurl.com/WhoseGenesEvent

Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage starting at 5 pm.

Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, one of the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture, with support from the Harvard President’s Building Bridges Fund, and the Herman and Joan Suit Lecture Fund.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/free-hybrid-lecture-whose-genes-what-genes-can-and-can’t-explain-about-life/200029929337522
- **Event Categories**: Art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 29

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
- **lat**: 42.37819
- **long**: -71.11624
- **full address**: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Free Hybrid Lecture: Whose Genes? What Genes Can (and Can’t) Explain About Life being held?
  - **A:** Free Hybrid Lecture: Whose Genes? What Genes Can (and Can’t) Explain About Life takes place on Tue, 21 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Tue, 21 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Free Hybrid Lecture: Whose Genes? What Genes Can (and Can’t) Explain About Life?
  - **A:** Free Hybrid Lecture: Whose Genes? What Genes Can (and Can’t) Explain About Life is organized by Harvard Museum of Natural History.

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