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Porträtt av Emmanuelle Charpentier, hedersdoktor vid Umeå universitet.

Seminar with Nobel Prize winner Emmanuelle Charpentier

Fri
26
Sep
Time Friday 26 September, 2025 at 13:30 - 14:30
Place Aula Nordica

Emmanuelle Charpentier has been named an honorary citizen of Umeå, and in connection with the honorary citizenship ceremony, the Nobel Prize winner is making a long-awaited visit to her home university.

In this seminar, colleagues, students and other interested parties are invited to a lively discussion about the important role of research and researchers in society, the future of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool, and what it is really like to be awarded a Nobel Prize.

Students from Umeå's upper secondary schools have also been invited to the talk and encouraged to contribute questions.

Participants:

• Emmanuelle Charpentier, professor at the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, as well as former employee at Umeå University.

• Ronnie Berntsson, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Umeå University.

More participants will be announced shortly.

The discussion will be opened by Marie-Louise Rönnmark, Chair of Umeå Municipal Council, and Patrik Danielson, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Umeå University.

Moderator: Annakarin Nyberg

 


Registration: Pre-registration must be made via this link by 26 September at the latest.

The discussion will be held in English. Doors open at 13:00.

 

About Emmanuelle Charpentier

From 2009 to 2017, Emmanuelle Charpentier was a group leader at MIMS – The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden – at Umeå University and has also been a visiting professor at the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research (UCMR). In 2020, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, together with Jennifer A. She is a world-leading expert in regulatory mechanisms underlying processes of infection and immunity in bacterial pathogens. Today, she is Scientific and Managing Director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens in Berlin, an institute that she founded together with the Max Planck Society. Emmanuelle Charpentier has been an honorary doctor in medicine at Umeå University since 2017.

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