Adrian Bird interviewed by Alex Gann [post-production version]

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Adrian Bird is a geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. He has spent much of his academic career in Edinburgh, from receiving his PhD in 1970 to working at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit and later serving as director of the Wellcome Trust Center for Cell Biology. His research focuses on understanding DNA methylation and CpG islands, and their role in diseases such as Rett Syndrome. Following his PhD, Dr. Bird went on to conduct his postdoctoral research at Yale University and University of Zurich. Bird, amongst numerous other honors, was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989 and was awarded the Gabor Medal in 1999. He also received the Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine in 1999 and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honors in 2005.