Dr Günes Taylor
research scientist; public speaker

Günes researches the networks of genes responsible for forming ovaries and testes during embryonic development. She is fascinated by the intellectual, emotional and ideological relationship that humans have with their genomes, and how this changes with time and biotechnological development.

Günes has been involved in public engagement throughout her formal academic training. In recent years she has debated genome editing and related topics in forums including the Battle of Ideas festival and How The Light Gets In festival, Fertility Fest, FutureFest, Virtual Futures, and the Festival of Genomics and Biodata, as well as in the Guardian newspaper’s Science Weekly podcast and in the pages of New Scientist magazine.

Follow Günes on Twitter: @GunesTaylor

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