The Arts and Genomics Centre (TAGC) held its official launch which included lectures, performance and debates covering the centre’s activities.  c-lab gave a talk on The Martian Rose, which proposed the genetic engineering of a rose for an extreme environment with the aim to sustain life on Mars.   Lectures included Joe Davis’ talk Contamination or Cross-fertilisation?: Artists in Laboratories and Suzanne Anker’s talk on the Genetic Gaze.