BIOLOGY EVENT
Rewriting the language of life: Impacts and challenges of DNA editing
Who: Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D.
What: OHSU Foundaitons’s 2016 Calvin and Mayho Tanabe Address
When: 10/11/2016 @ 7
Where: Winningstad Theater 1111 SW Broadway Portland
Cost: Tickets only $10 for students!
Description: As a biochemist at the University of Berkeley, co-inventor of CRISPR–a biotech innovation of the century–Jennifer Doudna will talk about the published research of 2012 which details the gene-editing technique. CRISPR allows scientists to alter any organism’s DNA and is even being used at the University of Portland in Dr. Ami Ahern-Rindell’s research. Go learn all about the future of gene editing.