Associate Professor Cath Suter recieved a BAppSc (Biomedical) from the University of Technology, and a BSc, then PhD from the University of New South Wales. She is now an ARC Future Fellow and head of the Epigenetics Laboratory at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney. She was the first to describe germline epimutation in humans, and her major interest continues to be mammalian germline epigenetic phenomena and their inheritance. Her group focuses on the epigenetic contribution to phenotypic variation and disease risk, with a particular interest in the influence of environmental factors on epigenetic inheritance.