Precise Genome Editing Technologies

Mini Symposium:
Precise Genome Editing Technologies
Panum*, 28th of August, 2015
*The symposium will be held in the Faculty Club at Panum Institute, Nørre Alle’ 20, 2200
Copenhagen N. For registration and additional information contact Ellen Høyer ([email protected]).
Emerging technologies (Chair, Eric P. Bennett)
8.30-9.05
Caroline Beckett, CRISPR product manager, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation
"Advanced CRISPR Genome Editing: Specific Sequence Changes and Whole genome screens".
9.10-9.40
Chris Thorne, Gene Editing Community Specialist, Horizon Discovery
“CRISPR Evolved: Systematic optimisation of the gene editing workflow”
9.45-10.15
Emilie Delverdié, Integrated DNA Technologies
“Rewriting the Genome Using Synthetic Gene Fragments”
10.15-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-11.15
Anja Martinez, Life Sciences Solutions, Thermo Fisher Scientific
“Enhancing the CRISPR experience”
11.20-11.50
Jacob Giehm Mikkelsen, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark.
“Delivering the goods for genome engineering and editing”
11.55-12.25
Claudio Mussolino, University of Freiburg
“Designer nucleases and iPSCs: novel tools for disease modeling and therapy”
12.25-13.15
Lunch break/poster session I
Gene edited models (Chair, Hans H. Wandall)
13.15-13.50
Ralf Kühn, Institute for Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München
” Direct production of mouse mutants using engineered nucleases in one-cell embryos”
13.55-14.25
Marcello Maresca, Discovery Sciences, Astra Zeneca
“ObLiGaRe: Targeted Integration by Homology Independent Repair in Cells and Animals”
14.30-15.00
Morten Frodin, BRIC, University of Copenhagen
”Modelling of hepatocellular carcinoma”
15.05-15.35
Shamim Herbert Rahman, Mammalian Cell Technology, Novo Nordisk A/S,
”Genome Editing of CHO – Creating the next generation of mammalian production cell lines”
15.40-16.10
Angela Dürr, Danish Stem Cell Center, University of Copenhagen
“IDAATM for detection of CRISPR/Cas9 induced indels in zebrafish”
Closing remarks