Welcome to an open lecture of
Jacques Dubochet
Nobel laureate in Chemistry 2017
Title:
The science that gave me a Nobel prize and the science that didn’t
Place: Aula Nordica, Universum
Jacques Dubochet, who is based at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, will be awarded the Nobel prize on December 10 together with Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.
Umeå University and the Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) has one of two cryo-electron microscopes in Sweden.
Hosts for the visit are Linda Sandblad, Director of UCEM and researcher at UCMR, MIMS and the Department of Microbiology, and Lars-Anders Carlson, researcher at WCMM and the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics.
During his visit, Professor Dubochet will also meet Umeå-based researchers and school students.
More information about the 2017 chemistry prize is available at the Nobel committé website