Transgenerational Effects and Evolution (Transgen) is a three-year project funded by the EPSRC through their Maths of Life sandpit. Transgen is an interdisciplinary collaboration between mathematicians and biologists from the Universities of Cambridge, Exeter, UCL and Surrey. It involves mathematical modelling, life history theory, quantitative genetics and evolutionary game theory. The aim is to develop novel mathematical methods for modelling non-genetic transgenerational influences on life-history evolution, and to use them to explain the diversity of observed transgenerational effects. The project will also evaluate these theoretical analyses comparatively across species and relate them to longitudinal cohort studies of human populations.

Full details can be found on the Transgenerational Effects and Evolution website.