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Jennifer Doudna

University of California, Berkeley & Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Breakthrough Prize Canada Gairdner Award Lasker Award National Medal of Science Nobel Prize

Jennifer Doudna is a Professor of the Departments of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Early in her career, she studied the structure and mechanism of ribozymes (enzymatic RNA molecules) and RNA-protein complexes. Now her research focuses on understanding how RNA molecules control gene expression in bacteria and eukaryotic cells, through CRISPR-Cas9 and RNA-mediated mechanisms, respectively. For her outstanding scientific contributions, she was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2003 and was awarded the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in the Life Sciences. In 2020, Dr. Doudna received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her contribution to the development of CRISPR-Cas technology as a method for genome editing. Learn more about Jennifer Doudna’s research here.

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)

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
Audience:
  • General Public
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 00:12:57

Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9: Birth of a Breakthrough Technology

Doudna and her colleagues developed the CRISPR-Cas9 gene expression system that, when introduced into animal cells, makes site-specific changes to intact genomes. (Talk recorded in January 2015)

Jennifer Doudna
Audience:
  • General Public
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 16:41

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