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Our Distinguished Speakers

  Keynote Speakers  

Maria JASIN

Shaw Prize in Life Science & Medicine
 2019
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Genetic and Genomic Loss from Chromosomal Double-strand Breaks

 

Virginijus ŠIKŠNYS

Kavli Prize in Nanoscience 2018

Vilnius University

 

From Transposition to CRISPR-Cas Antiphage Defense and Beyond

Daniel VOYTAS

National Academy of Sciences 

University of Minnesota

 

       Plant Gene Editing at Scale Using Non-Transgenic Approaches

 

Invited Speakers

 

Omar ABUDAYYEH

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA           

Programmable Technologies for Biology, Genome Editing, and mRNA Therapies

Sangsu BAE

Seoul National University, South Korea                   

Precise Adenine Base Editor with 1-nt Resolution and Generative AI - Assisted PE Platform

Chase BIESEL

Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Germany

Exploring and Harnessing the Functional Diversity of Cas12a2 Nucleases

 

Anne CERESETO

              University of Trento, Italy                                   

Identification and Evolution of Novel CRISPR-Cas Systems From the Human Microbiome

Debojyoti CHAKRABORTY

CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, India

Navigating the Translational Route of Therapeutic Gene Editing in Resource Limited Settings

 

Jia CHEN

         ShanghaiTech University, China                                

Base Editing to Treat β-thalassemia Patients

 

Sidi CHEN

Yale University, USA

Screening the Different Dimensions of Immunological Genome

Le CONG

Stanford University, USA

Harnessing Single-Strand Annealing Proteins for Cleavage-free Gene Insertion: from Metagenomic Mining to Mechanistic Probing

 

Jacob CORN

ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Better Genome Editing by Listening to Human Cells

Peter FINERAN

University of Otago, New Zealand

 Counter-defence Strategies Used by Phages to Overcome CRISPR-Cas Immunity            

 

Caixia GAO

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China   

Precision CRISPR Technologies and Their Applications in Crop Improvement

 

Marc GÜELL

        Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain                                                                      Writing Genomes and Metagenomes, and the Advent of Synthetic Evolution

Patrick HSU

University of California (Berkeley), USA                  

Bridging Biology and AI for Genome Design

 

Chunyi HU

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Enhanced Performance of RNA-Guided Nucleases through Protein Engineering

 

Quanjiang JI

        ShanghaiTech University, China                        

Diversity and Mechanisms of Miniature CRISPR-Cas12 Genome Editors

Elizabeth KELLOGG

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA

Mechanistic Insights into RNA-guided DNA Integration Using Transposons

Hyongbum Henry KIM

Yonsei University College of Medicine, South Korea

Saturation Resistance Profiling of EGFR Variants Against Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Using Prime Editing

 

Kyoungmi KIM

           Korea University, South Korea                                   

Targeted Mutagenesis Using CRISPR-ribonucleoprotein Packaged in Virus-like Particles in Mouse Embryos

Dali LI

East China Normal University, China                                                                         

Precise Genome Editing Techniques and Their Clinical Applications

Magdy MAHFOUZ

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Programmable Site-specific DNA DSBs via PNA-assisted pAgo

 

Prashant MALI

University of California (San Diego), USA                

At Scale Genome and Transcriptome Engineering

 

Holger PUCHTA

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Using CRISPR/Cas for Plant Breeding: From Gene Editing to Chromosome Engineering

 

Stanley QI

              Stanford University, USA                                            

Precision CRISPR-Mediated Epigenetic and Transcriptome Engineering for Cell Therapy

Neville SANJANA

New York Genome Center & New York University, USA

New Frontiers in Pooled Genetic Screens: Next-Generation Cell Therapies and Deciphering Complex Human Genetics

Gerald SCHWANK

University of Zürich, Switzerland
 

In Vivo Genome Editing in Mice and Macaques Using mRNA-LNP Delivery

Samuel STERNBERG

Columbia University, USA
 

De Novo Gene Synthesis by an Antiviral Reverse Transcriptase

 

Meng How TAN

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

New Tools to Rewrite DNA and RNA in Living Cells

Wensheng WEI

Peking University, China

Gene Editing Enables Innovative Advancements in Cellular and Gene Therapy

Hui YANG

Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Next Generation of DNA Base Editor and its Applications

Ying ZHANG

Wuhan University, China

The effect of DNA topology on regulating Cas9 activities

 

  Industry Speakers  

Michael WINTHER

Engine Biosciences

Applications of CRISPR-Cas Technology to Precision Oncology

Harshyaa MAKHIJA

LambdaGen Therapeutics

Genetically Engineered iPSC-Derived Immune Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy

Nguyen Kien Truc GIANG

Wilmar International

Thermostability Enhancement of Enzymes Through Comparative Genomics: Applications in Production of Industrial Lipids

 

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