Fall 2021
September 8th | The basics of CRISPR-Cas
Presenter | Valeri Vasquez, Graduate Student & Journal Club Coordinator |
September 15th | The CRISPR-Cas patent war
Presenter | Ben Rubin, Postdoctoral Researcher & Journal Club Coordinator |
September 22nd | Biohacking
Guest Speaker | Richard Fuisz, Founder of Strandbase |
Paper |
Caveat creator |
September 29th | CRISPR-associated transposases
Presenter | Sarp Kurtoglu, Journal Club Member |
Paper |
Dual modes of CRISPR-associated transposon homing |
October 6th | CRISPR for selection of edited viruses
Presenter | Vindhya Kilaru, Journal Club Member |
Paper |
Rapid poxvirus engineering using CRISPR/Cas9 as a selection tool |
October 13th | Prime editing
Presenter | Kenneth Loi, Journal Club Member |
Paper |
Search-and-replace genome editing without double-strand breaks or donor DNA |
October 20th | Cas9 structural dynamics
Guest Speaker | Josh Cofsky, Graduate Student in the Doudna Lab |
Paper |
CRISPR-Cas9 bends and twists DNA to read its sequence |
October 27th | High-throughput Cas protein engineering
Guest Speaker | David Savage, IGI Investigator and Associate Professor at UC Berkeley |
Papers |
CRISPR-Cas9 Circular Permutants as Programmable Scaffolds for Genome Modification Comprehensive deletion landscape of CRISPR-Cas9 identifies minimal RNA-guided DNA-binding modules |
November 3rd | CRISPR screening to improve immunotherapy
Presenter | Chang Liu, Journal Club Member |
Paper |
Targeting REGNASE-1 programs long-lived effector T cells for cancer therapy |
November 10th | Therapeutic delivery of CRISPR tools
Guest Speaker | Niren Murthy, IGI Investigator and Professor at UC Berkeley |
Related Project |
Development of novel technologies for delivery of base editors to the airway epithelium |
November 17th | Using anti-CRISPRs to control gene drives
Presenter | Russell Brown, Journal Club Member |
Paper |
A genetically encoded anti-CRISPR protein constrains gene drive spread and prevents population suppression |
November 24th | Thanksgiving: No meeting
December 1st | Career panel
December 8th | Dinner at Jupiter (final meeting of the semester!)