HMS-CSSA Frontier Symposium – Gene Editing

Mar - 05
2018

HMS-CSSA Frontier Symposium – Gene Editing

HMS-CSSA Frontier Symposium in 

Gene Editing

HMS-CSSA invites scientists in the Boston area to join us in the Frontier Symposium in Gene Editing. We hope this will be an opportunity for scientists with similar interests to communicate and network.

March 9th (Friday) 4:30-6:30 pm

TMEC 246 Walter Amphitheater, Tosteson Medical Education Center, 260 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115 

 

Speaker 1

Weixin Tang, Ph.D. 

Postdoctoral Fellow, David R. Liu’s lab

 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Harvard University, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

CRISPR-assisted recording in bacterial and mammalian cells

Ref: Tang, Weixin, and David R. Liu. “Rewritable multi-event analog recording in bacterial and mammalian cells.” Science (2018)

 

Speaker 2

Julia Joung 

Ph.D. Candidate, Feng Zhang’s lab

Department of Biological Engineering

MIT BroadInstitute of MIT and Harvard University

Genome-scale activationscreen identifies a lncRNA locus regulating a gene neighbourhood

Ref: Joung, Julia, et al. “Genome-scale activation screen identifies a lncRNA locus regulating a gene neighbourhood.” Nature 548.7667(2017): 343.

 

Speaker 3

Luhan Yang, Ph.D.

Co-founder, President and Chief Scientific Officer of eGenesis Inc.

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of QihanBio Inc.

Xenotransplantation as a clinical reality using CRISPR-Cas9 technology

Ref: Niu, Dong, .., Yang, Luhan (corresponding author). “Inactivation of porcine endogenous retrovirus in pigs using CRISPR-Cas9.” Science 357.6357(2017): 1303-1307.

 

Moderator

Shawn Liu, Ph.D.

Damon Runyon Fellow,  Whitehead Institute, MIT

 

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