Abstract Deadline: July 3, 2015

Organizers
Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley/HHMI Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY Jonathan Weissman, UCSF/HHMI

We are pleased to announce a new Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Genome Engineering: The CRISPR/Cas Revolution, which will begin in the evening of Thursday, September 24, and run through lunch on Sunday, September 27.

The specific goal for this meeting is to foster fruitful and creative interactions between researchers interested in applying these systems to genome engineering and related advances in a wide variety of organisms, together with scientists studying the basic biology of CRISPR/Cas and related bacterial defense systems. The meeting will consist of six oral sessions and one poster session

Topics:
CRISPR Biology
DNA Repair/Genome Editing
Human Genome Engineering
Model Organisms/Plants
Technology Development
Stem Cells/Cancer

Confirmed Speakers:
Daniel Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany; Ume� University, Sweden
George Church, Harvard University
Bruce Conklin, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Philip Gregory, Sangamo BioSciences, Inc
James Haber, Brandeis University
Bo Huang, University of California, San Francisco
Danwei Huangfu, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
J. Keith Joung, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jin-Soo Kim, Seoul National University, South Korea
Nancy Maizels, University of Washington
Luciano Marraffini, The Rockefeller University
Stanley Qi, Stanford University
John Schimenti, Cornell University
William Skarnes, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Erik Sontheimer, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Lorraine Symington, Columbia University College of P&S
Andrea Ventura, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Feng Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panel Discussion: "Ethics of Human Germline Genome Editing"
Panelists:
R. Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Henry Greely, Stanford University School of Law