On CRISPR technology and ethics
This year, the Wolfgang Pauli Lectures will highlight the CRISPR technology, its origins and its current applications in research and medicine. The speaker is Jennifer Doudna, the 2020 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry.
Members of ETH Zurich are cordially invited to attend this year's Wolfgang Pauli Lectures that will be delivered by Professor Jennifer Doudna from the University of California, Berkeley. Jennifer Doudna is the Li Ka Shing Chancellor’s Chair and a Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her groundbreaking development of CRISPR-Cas9 as a genome-engineering technology, with collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier, earned the two the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and forever changed the course of human and agricultural genomics research.
Editing the Code of Life: The Technology and Ethics of CRISPR
- Monday, November 6, 2023, 17.15 h
- Auditorium Maximum, HG F 30, ETH Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101, Zürich
- This talk will introduce the CRISPR technology and discuss its origins as part of bacterial adaptive immunity and current applications in health and agriculture.
The Future of CRISPR: What's Ahead for Genome Editing
- Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 17.15 h
- Auditorium Maximum, HG F 30, ETH Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101, Zürich
- This talk will discuss current applications of CRISPR for both research and medicine, and well as challenges and opportunities in the field of genome editing.
Mechanisms and evolution of RNA-guided enzymes: CRISPR and Beyond
- Wednesday, November 8, 2023, 11.00 h
- Lecture Hall HIL E 4, ETH Hönggerberg, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, Zürich
- This talk will discuss current research to determine how RNA-guided enzymes function in cells and how these activities have evolved across the evolutionary tree of life.
The lectures are open for the public. All talks will be in English. No registration is needed. The lecture on Monday will be broadcast to lecture room HG E 3.
Further information can be found at http://www.pauli-lectures.ethz.ch .
The Wolfgang Pauli Lectures are an annual lecture series that is devoted to Physics, Mathematics and Biology in a rotating sequence. They are named after the great theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli, who was professor at ETH Zürich from 1928 until his death in 1958.
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