Technical Program

Friday, October 1

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Welcome Remarks

James Carothers, University of Washington

Jesse Zalatan, University of Washington

9:10 AM

9:15 AM

9:15 AM

10:00 AM

Novel CRISPR Tools for Genome Engineering and Therapy.

Keynote Speaker: Stanley Qi, Stanford University

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM

12:15 PM

Session 1: Biotechnology & Nanotechnology Applications

Session Chair: Carrie Eckert, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Optimizing pathways in yeast using a CRISPR-dCas9-based approach.

Invited Speaker: Hal Alper, University of Texas at Austin

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Super-Mendelian inheritance by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene conversion in male and female mice.

Invited Speaker: Kim Cooper, University of California, San Diego

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

CRISPR-Powered Transistors A merger of Bio and Nano technology

Invited Speaker: Kiana Aran, Keck Graduate Institute

12:00 PM

12:15 PM

dCas9-Fusion Peptide Library Display and DNA-Templated Peptide Microarray Self-Assembly for Quantitative Protein Binding Assays.

Selected Abstract: Karl Barber, Harvard University

12:15 PM

12:30 PM

Spatio-Temporal Control of CRISPR Editing

Sponsored Talk: Jared Carlson-Stervermer, Synthego

12:30 PM

12:45 PM

Break

12:45 PM

2:15 PM

Session 2: CRISPR and COVID

Session Chair: Neville Sanjana, New York Genome Center and New York University

12:45 PM

1:15 PM

CRISPR vs SARS-CoV-2

Invited Speaker: Patrick Hsu, UC Berkeley

1:15 PM

1:45 PM

Cas13-based technologies for detecting COVID-19.

Invited Speaker: Cameron Myhrvold, Princeton University

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

CRISPR-Based Detection of Sars-Cov-2 By Detectr.

Selected Abstract: James Broughton, Mammoth Biosciences

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

Engineered CRISPR/Cas12 Systems Enable Point-of-Care Detection of Sars-Cov-2 RNA.

Selected Abstract: Piyush Jain, University of Florida

2:15 PM

3:15 PM

Poster Session

Saturday, October 2

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Welcome

Jesse Zalatan, University of Washington

9:10 AM

9:15 AM

9:15 AM

10:00 AM

Mapping the Genetic Landscape of Genome Editing

Keynote Speaker: Britt Adamson, Princeton University

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM

11:45 PM

Session 3: Genome Editing and DNA Repair

Session Chair: Alexis Komor, University of California, San Diego

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Enhancing Genome Editing Technologies Using Protein Engineering.

Invited Speaker: Ben Kleinstiver, Massachusetts General Hospital

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Epigenome editing for mechanistic human epigenetics and synthetic transcriptional networks.

Invited Speaker: Isaac Hilton, Rice University

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

A Repackaged CRISPR/Cas9 Platform Recasts Non-Homologous End Joining As a Beneficial Instrument in Nonconventional Yeast Engineering.

Selected Abstract: Zengyi Shao, Iowa State University

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Sponsored Talk: Twist Bioscience

12:00 PM

1:30 PM

Session 4: Genome Screening & Discovery

Session Chair: Janice Chen, Mammoth Biosciences

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

CRISPR-based heritable gene silencing by epigenetic editing

Invited Speaker: James Nuñez, UCB

12:30 PM

1:00 PM

Genomic approaches to dissect copy number alterations in cancer.

Invited Speaker: Teresa Davoli, NYU Langone

1:00 PM

1:15 PM

Genome-Wide Cripsr-dCAS9 (CRIPSRi) Libraries in Clostridium Autoethanogenum as a Mechanism for Fitness Prototyping.

Selected Abstract: Nick Fackler, Lanza Tech

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

Digital Genome Engineering for High-Throughput Discovery and Strain Optimization Applications.

Selected Abstract: Bryan Leland, Inscripta

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

Sponsored Talk: MilliporeSigma

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

Break

2:00 PM

3:45 PM

Session 5: CRISPR-Cas Biology

Session Chair: Jesse Zalatan, University of Washington

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

Unraveling the specificity and inhibition of CRISPR-Cas nucleases

Invited Speaker: Ilya Finkelstein, University of Texas at Austin

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

Understanding Current Precision Genome Editing Tools: how Adenine Base Editors modify DNA.

Invited Speaker: Audrey Lapinaite, Arizona State University

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

Memory Formation by the Cas4-Cas1-Cas2 Complex During CRISPR Adaptation.

Invited Speaker: Dipali Sashital, ISU

3:30 PM

3:45 PM

CRISPR Target Location Determines the Escape Strategy of Bacteriophage.

Selected Abstract: Michael Schelling, Iowa State University

Sunday, October 3

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Welcome

James Carothers, University of Washington

9:10 AM

9:15 AM

9:15 AM

10:00 AM

Targeted DNA integration without double-strand breaks using CRISPR RNA-guided transposons.

Keynote Speaker: Sam Sternberg, Columbia University

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Break

10:30 AM

12:00 PM

Session 6: Mammalian Synthetic Biology

Session Chair: Leonidas Bleris, University of Texas at Dallas

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Invited Speaker: Prashant Mali, University of California, San Diego

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Engineering CRISPR circuits in mammalian cells.

Invited Speaker: Wilson Wong, Boston University

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

Provenance Attestation of Human Cells Using Physical Unclonable Functions.

Selected Abstract: Yi Li, University of Texas at Dallas

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

Long-Term DNA Recording with Ordered Insertion Mutations.

Selected Abstract: Theresa Loveless, University of California Irvine

12:00 PM

12:10 PM

Closing Remarks