Genome Editing: From Bacteria to Therapy
Date and Time
May 5, 2015
02:00PM - 05:00PM EDT
Location
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Jimmy Fund Auditorium, 35 Binney Street, Boston, MA
2015 Susan Swerling Lectures
Hosted by Carl Novina, MD, PhD
Program:
J. Keith Joung, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School – Cambridge, MA
“Editing the Genome and Epigenome to Understand and Treat Disease”
Jordan Jarjour, PhD
Nuclease R&D, BlueBird Bio - Seattle, Washington
“The Challenges and Rewards of Genome Editing with Homing Endonucleases”
Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research - Germany
“CRISPR-Cas9: An Ancient Bacterial Immune System Harnessed for Genome Engineering”
Feng Zhang, PhD
Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School – Boston, MA
“Development and Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 for Genome Editing”