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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences, professor of biochemistry, biophysics and structural biology, departments of molecular and cell biology and chemistry, University of California, Berkeley; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

Many bacteria and archaea use adaptive immunity based on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) loci to defend against invading foreign nucleic acids. CRISPR systems include specific enzymes that produce short RNA molecules capable of base pairing with viral and plasmid sequences to block their propagation. The discovery of RNA-programmable DNA binding and cleavage by the CRISPR-associated protein Cas9 has opened the door to facile genome engineering in a wide variety of cells and organisms. Dr. Doudna will discuss her lab's recent work to uncover the molecular basis for RNA-directed DNA recognition and cleavage by Cas9, as well as new applications of this technology.

 

Dr. Doudna received her Ph.D. in biological chemistry from Harvard University. After serving as a member of the Yale University faculty for eight years, she joined the University of California, Berkeley, faculty in 2002. She has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1997 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2002. She was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2010. She is a recipient of the Lurie Prize from the Foundation for the NIH, and a co-recipient of the Paul Janssen Award in Biomedical Science.

 

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Alena Powell

Phone

(212) 327-7745

Sponsor

Alena Powell
(212) 327-7745
apowell@rockefeller.edu

Readings

http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=3525