Annual International DNA Day at the University

Sukurta: 06 April 2009

Article illustrationInternational DNA Day will be commemorated at the Faculty of Medicine on April 24 at 12.00 in the Grand Auditorium (M. K. Čiurlionio street 21/27). This annual celebration of genetics and genomics was set up in 2003 to commemorate the sequencing of the human genome and the 50th anniversary of the solving of the structure of DNA.

The press conference, lectures of most prominent Lithuanian genetic researchers as well as an award of schoolchildren – winners of the DNA Day Essay Contest will take place in the Faculty of Medicine on that day.