Wright State hosted 19th Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium

excerpted from Sarah Olsen's Newsroom article

August 10, 2017

This past May, Wright State University  hosted the Annual Midwest DNA Repair Symposium for the first time. More than 90 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty scientists from more than 20 universities around the United States attended.

Speakers at the 19th symposium were internationally known professors in their fields, including Tanya Paull, professor in molecular genetics and microbiology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Texas at Austin; and Sergei Mirkin, professor and biology chair at Tufts University.

“Every cell in our body suffers more