Boston Brilliance: CRISPR Scientists Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg
When:
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 6:30p -
8:00p
Wednesday, May 01, 2019 6:30p -
8:00p
Where:
WBUR CitySpace
890 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
Admission:
$5
Categories:
< 21, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences, University
Event website:
https://www.wbur.org/events/465227/boston-brilliance-crispr-wunderkind-scientists
Boston Brilliance is a WBUR CommonHealth series that introduces audiences to the brightest minds of Boston’s biomedical ecosystem.
Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg are only 28 years old, but they just got their own lab at MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research. Launching a lab at such a young age is kind of like graduating college at 14. They work on a particular area of CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing tool that has swept labs around the world in recent years. Together, they developed SHERLOCK, a tool to detect human disease – and are now hunting for CRISPR tools to treat diseases related to aging.
They’ll present their work at a lay-audience (mostly!) level and are game to talk about any aspects of CRISPR, life science, life as a young scientist, what their collaboration between a Palestinian scientist and a Jewish scientist means for the prospects of world peace — absolutely anything that you want to ask them. No question is too basic or too complex and no audience member is too young or too old. Morning Edition producer Khari Thompson moderates.
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