Professor and Howard Hughes Investigator
Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.
Jennifer Doudna, Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of CRISPR-Cas9, provides a foundational overview of CRISPR biology, tracing its development from fundamental microbial defense mechanisms to a revolutionary genome engineering technology.
Explains bacterial adaptive immunity and the structural mechanism by which guide RNA directs Cas9 endonuclease cleavage of double-stranded DNA.
Protein chemistry, CRISPR/mRNA engineering, natural selection, and fMRI neuroscience
MIT · UC Berkeley · Karolinska Institutet +1
