UppTalk: How can genetic tools be used to benefit our health and the environment?

  • Date: 22 April 2025, 12:00–12:30
  • Location: Online event, Zoom
  • Type: Seminar
  • Lecturer: Barbara Bourgade, postdoc at Department of Organismal Biology
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  • Organiser: Faculty of Science and Technology
  • Contact person: Nina Lund

The seminar is held in English.

Today, the gene scissors CRISPR can modify our genome as well as microorganisms to create chemical compounds for green energy. But what is needed to edit DNA safely and to produce biofuels more efficiently? Join researcher Barbara Bourgade for a discussion on synthetic biology, and how microalgae and cyanobacteria can offer sustainable solutions for pharmaceuticals, chemicals and more.

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UppTalk is a popular science seminar series via Zoom where you get to enjoy interesting seminars with researchers from Uppsala University. The seminars revolve around relevant topics where the audience have the opportunity to ask questions to our researchers.

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