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”