Guest Lecture by Emmanuelle Charpentier
On December 5th, 2023, the University Board decided that Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier will be created Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Oslo in 2024. Professor Charpentier was nominated by the Department of Biosciences. The honorary doctorate ceremony will take place in connection with the University of Oslo's annual celebration on September 2nd, with a ceremony in the University Hall and a formal dinner in the evening.
On the occasion of the conferment, a guest lecture with Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier will be organized by the Department of Biosciences on September 2nd. Everyone is welcome.
Title of the guest lecture: "How bacteria are revolutionizing genome editing and engineering: the example of CRISPR-Cas”.
About Emmanuelle Charpentier
Emmanuelle Charpentier is Director at Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens and Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin.
Professor Charpentier is appointed honorary doctor for her work in genetics and molecular biology. One of Charpentier's most important contributions, alongside Jennifer A. Doudna, is the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 system into a tool for accurate genome editing, which won them the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020.
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UiO's honorary doctoral degrees
Honorary doctoral degrees of UiO, Doctor Honoris Causa, are given to prominent academics. The degrees are awarded without a thesis defence/disputation.
UiO has been entitled to appoint honorary doctorates since 1824, and appointments occur every three years. The honorary doctors are conferred at UiO's Annual Celebration on September 2nd.
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