STL Genome Editing 2021…Virtually A New Beginning Poster Session

This conference, presented by Genome Engineering and iPSC Center, has a lot of talented participants sharing their work through a virtual poster session. Check out the links below to see all of the unique research.

Did you miss the talks? Check out the recordings here.

Day 1

January 21, 2021 8 AM to 1 PM

• Charlie Gersbach, Ph.D., Rooney Family Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University
  • Decoding and Programming the Genome with CRISPR Technologies
• Ibrahim Kurt, Ph. D.  Candidate, Harvard University
  • CRISPR C-to-G base editors for inducing targeted DNA transversions in human cells
• Traver Hart, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • CRISPR screening for functional genomics and cancer targeting
• Shengdar Tsai, Assistant Member of the Department of Hematology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • Understanding genetic and epigenetic effects on CRISPR-Cas9 genome-wide activity with CHANGE-seq
• Tim Peterson, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis
  • “Sphingolipids connect pathogens to aging-related disease”
• John Doench, Director R&D, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University
  • “Massively parallel variant-to-function mapping with CRISPR base editor screens”
• Andrew Anzalone, Head of the Prime Editing Platform at Prime Medicine, Inc. 
  • “Prime Editing: Versatile and Precise Genome Editing without Double-strand Breaks or Donor DNA”
• Panel Discussion:
  • Including Monica Sentmanat, Ph.D./Assistant Director of GEiC, Steven Hoffman Illumina, Cell & Molecular Biology Segment Manager, and other speakers from the event
  • “Off targeting using nucleases, base editors, prime editors, and in screens”

Day 2

January 22, 2021 8 AM to 1 PM

• 8 AM Alejandro Chavez,  Assistant Professor of Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University
  • “Controlling gene expression with CRISPR-based tools”
• 8:30 AM Dongsheng Duan, Margaret Proctor Mulligan Professor in Medical Research, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia
  • “CRISPR editing therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy”
• 9 AM Aron Geurts, Associate Professor, Department of Physiology,  Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Engineering Rats and Rat Model Resources
• 9:30 AM Xiaoxia Cui, Director of the Genome Engineering & iPSC Center, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Reliable and Efficient Creation of Floxed Alleles in Mice
• 10 AM Andrew Yoo, Associate Professor of Developmental Biology,  Washington University in St. Louis
  • “Modeling late-onset neurodegenerative disorders via direct neuronal reprogramming of patient fibroblasts”
• 10:30 AM Martin Kampmann, Associate Professor, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco
  • “CRISPR-based functional genomics in iPSC-derived models of brain disease”
• 11 AM. Luke Gilbert, Assistant Professor, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco
  • “Genome-wide Programmable Transcriptional Memory by CRISPR-based Epigenome Editing”
• 11:30 AM Michael Kosicki, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • “Large deletions, small trouble”
• 12 PM Panel Discussion:
  • Including Yi-Hsien Chen, Ph.D./Assistant Director of GEiC, Steven Hoffman Illumina, Cell & Molecular Biology Segment Manager, and other speakers from the event
  • “On target large deletion, repression as KO alternative, off-targeting potential, continue first days”