Jirtle lab

Jirtle Lab focuses on understanding how early-life environmental factors, like nutrition and chemicals, influence gene expression through epigenetics. Epigenetics involves changes that turn genes on or off without altering the DNA sequence. Their research aims to discover how these influences can affect health risks, such as obesity or cancer, later in life. By studying these processes, Jirtle Lab hopes to develop strategies for disease prevention and better understand how our environment shapes our genetic health across generations.