Bryan M. Turner is Professor of Experimental Genetics at School of Cancer Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research,

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, UK. He was educated at

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, where he earned his BSc in Biochemistry (1969) and PhD in Human Biochemical Genetics (1973). Before moving to Birmingham University in 1981, he was at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill (1969–70) and the Mt Sinai School of Medicine in New York (1973–78). He has contributed to the field of

epigenetics In biology, epigenetics is the study of stable phenotypic changes (known as ''marks'') that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix '' epi-'' ( "over, outside of, around") in ''epigenetics'' implies features that are ...

. He was elected a

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(FRS) in 2015, his nomination reads:

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