Berkeley Symposium Highlights Genome Editing

Symposium organizers and sponsors Steve Laderman (Agilent), Dirk Hockemeyer, Susan Marqusee, Jennifer Doudna, Alan Sachs (Thermo Fisher)

For the fourth year in a row, leading experts in genome engineering gathered at UC Berkeley to highlight their discoveries and technologies at the Re-writing Genomes symposium. The August 22, 2016 event attracted more than 400 people for scientific talks, poster sessions, and socializing.

Berkeley faculty members and QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliates Dirk Hockemeyer and Jennifer Doudna organized the meeting to highlight new research in the growing area of genome engineering, which offers precise genetic manipulation and novel approaches for tackling human disease.

Held in UC Berkeley’s Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences and hosted by QB3-Berkeley and the Innovative Genomics Initiative (IGI), the symposium was sponsored by Agilent Technologies and Thermo Fisher.

Photos © Peg Skorpinski