New Technologies and Applications for Genome Engineering
Organisers: Elizabeth Fisher, Andrew Smith and Victor Tybulewicz
Date: 25th - 28th March 2012
Location: Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex, UK
Technologies for manipulating the genomes of many cell types are being developed at an increasingly rapid rate using a variety of DNA engineering tools. Current capabilities range from making predesigned nucleotide changes in a gene (single nucleotide changes, insertions, deletions), to generating large scale chromosomal rearrangements including syntenic replacements with foreign chromosomal DNA, and recently to creating an entirely artificial functioning genome. The potential for genome engineering is huge with many applications, for example: to create microorganisms with novel synthetic capabilities; to create via embryonic stem cell manipulation animal models to understand gene function and human disease; and by modification of human somatic cells to correct genetic defects in strategies for therapeutic intervention.
Technologies for genome engineering derive in many cases from adapting naturally occurring in-vivo recombination systems such as homologous recombination, site-specific recombination and transposition to the cell types of interest, and in addition creating entirely novel systems such as zinc finger nucleases by protein engineering. Collectively these provide a sophisticated genetic engineering tool kit that makes possible in principle the design of any desired sequence specific genome manipulation. The aim of this Workshop was to bring together the experts who have pioneered these and emerging technologies in genome engineering together with leaders in their implementation in diverse fields encompassing studies in fundamental biology to biotechnological and biomedical applications.
Organisers & Speakers
Andrew Smith University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Victor Tybulewicz NIMR, London, UK
Michele Calos Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Mario Capecchi University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Toni Cathomen Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Philippe Duchateau Cellectis, Paris, France
Aris Economides Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, New York, USA
Philip Gregory Sangamo BioSciences, Richmond, USA
Yann Herault ICS, Strasbourg, France
Clyde Hutchison Venter Institute, San Diego, USA
Maria Jasin Sloan-Kettering Institute, New York, USA
Nancy Jenkins The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, USA
Ivo Lieberam King’s College London, London, UK
Pentao Liu Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Andras Nagy Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
Bill Skarnes Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Francis Stewart Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Junji Takeda Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Tian Xu Yale University, New Haven, USA
Wolfgang Wurst Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich-Neuherberg, Germany
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New Technologies and Applications for Genome Engineering
25th – 28th March 2012
Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex, UK
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