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