Emmanuelle Charpentier received her PhD at Institut Pasteur, Paris. She served as Director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin from 2015-2018. Since 2018, she has served as the Founding, Scientific and Managing Director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens, Berlin. Charpentier was awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020, along with Jennifer A. Doudna, “for the development of a method for genome editing.”
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Talks with this Speaker
Good Chemistry: Doudna, Charpentier, and a Nobel Prize for CRISPR
Discovering the CRISPR system: Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna’s Nobel Prize-winning research revolutionized gene editing. Learn about their groundbreaking experiments and collaboration that transformed CRISPR into a powerful gene editing tool. (Talk recorded in May 2017)
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Audience:
- General Public
- Student
- Researcher
- Educators
- Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 00:14:14
Discovery Story: Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 (Doudna, Jinek, Charpentier)
Jennifer Doudna, Martin Jinek, and Emmanuelle Charpentier describe their collaboration and influential experiment that led to the use of CRISPR as a gene editing technology. (Talk recorded in May 2017)
![Discovery Story: Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9](https://www.ibiology.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/doudna-300x169.jpg)
Audience:
- General Public
- Student
- Researcher
- Educators
- Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 00:12:57