The Novozymes Prize 2017 was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier together with Virginijus Siksnys.
In connection with the Prize, Emmanuelle Charpentier will give a celebratory lecture at MIMS, on 27 March.
NOVOZYMES PRIZE institutional lecture
NOTE! The lecture starts at 14:30 not at 15:00 as announced earlier!
Programme
Welcome
Bernt Eric Uhlin, Professor, Director of MIMS, UCMR
Dieter Müller, Professor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research, Umeå University
Introduction to the Novo Nordisk Foundation
Niels-Hendrik von Holstein-Rathlou, Professor, CSO Novo Nordisk Foundation
Motivation for awarding the Novozymes Prize
Søren Molin, Professor, Chair, Novozymes Prize Committee
Lecture:
"The CRISPR-Cas9 game changer in genome engineering: lessons learned from bacteria"
Speaker:
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Professor, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany
Visiting Professor and Group Leader at MIMS and Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR), Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University After the lecture the Novo Nordisk Foundation will host a reception in front of Major Groove
Place: Major Groove, building 6 L, Biomedicine building, Department of Molecular Biology
Contact: Eva-Maria Diehl, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
National and International Seminar Series 2017
Speaker:
Jessica Quintin
Department of Mycology
Institut Pasteur, France
Title:
Monocyte memory to Beta-Glucans and beyond
Host: Pedro Lopes, Clinical Microbiology
Note: Coffee will be served outside the lecture hall 30min before start