Institut Pasteur 2020 PhD graduation ceremony, with Emmanuelle Charpentier as guest speaker

The Department of Education, together with the Institut Pasteur's association for young researchers (StaPa), is proud to present this year's eighth edition of the PhD graduation ceremony.

The event, for students who completed their PhD during the 2019-2020 academic year, will take place on Friday December 4, 2020, at 3pm, in english. Because of the current health context, this year's ceremony will be held exclusively online.
 

After introductory addresses from Stewart Cole, President, Monica Sala, Executive Director for Education, and David Bikard, Head of the Synthetic Biology Unit, Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier, winner of the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine and Member of the French Academy of Sciences, recently unveiled as the laureate of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jennifer Doudna, will give a lecture as guest speaker, followed by an opportunity for discussion via a live chat.

Emmanuelle Charpentier director of the Max Planck Unit for the Science of Pathogens and Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley,  will receive their prestigious honor at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in December for her discovery of CRISPR-Cas9. Since obtaining her PhD at the Institut Pasteur in the 1990s in Patrice Courvalin's laboratory, she has become an outstanding role model for all female scientists.

Save the date in your diaries now and sign up at the following address to receive the link for the meeting a few days in advance (free of charge but prior registration is required).

If you have any questions, please email ipgraduation@pasteur.fr