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Genome Engineering: From Mechanisms to Therapies (B4)

Scientific Organizers: Andrew May, Rodolphe Barrangou and Knut Woltjen


February 19—23, 2019

Fairmont Empress Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada


Sponsored by BlueRock Therapeutics, Editas Medicine, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated


Abstract submission is now closed. Registered attendees may bring a poster onsite. Please contact our office at +1 800-253-0685; +1 970-262-1230 or email info@keystonesymposia.org if you are interested.
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DEADLINES:
*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time
Scholarship Deadline: Oct 23, 2018 [details]
Discounted Abstract Deadline: Oct 23, 2018 [details]
Abstract Deadline: Nov 20, 2018 [details]
Discounted Registration Deadline: Dec 19, 2018 [details]

If you have missed a deadline due to the US government shutdown, please contact our office.

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Register Yourself Deadlines and Fees

Rates and Deadlines listed below are for the 2019-B4 "Genome Engineering: From Mechanisms to Therapies" conference only.

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time

Deadline Date Cost
Discounted Abstract Deadline
More details		 Before and On October 23, 2018 100.00 USD*
- 50.00 USD discount
Abstract Deadline
More details		 After October 23, 2018 until January 8, 2019 100.00 USD*
* 50.00 USD of Abstract fee deducted from your registration fee when you register for this meeting
Scholarship
More details		 October 23, 2018 n/a
Discounted NON-STUDENT Registration
More details		 Before and On December 19, 2018 945.00 USD
(includes 200.00 discount)
Regular NON-STUDENT Registration
More details		 After December 19, 2018 1145.00 USD
Discounted STUDENT Registration
More details		 Before and On December 19, 2018 720.00 USD
(includes 200.00 discount)
Regular STUDENT Registration
More details		 After December 19, 2018 920.00 USD

* Changes in payment type that result in a refund are subject to a processing fee.
* Currency exchange gains/losses are the responsibility of the registrant and the Keystone Symposia will accept no liability for money loss through bank charges, transfers or currency fluctuations.




Discounted Abstract Deadline: October 23, 2018

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time

Abstract Submission Fee: 100.00 USD*
Submission by this date receives 50.00 USD discount.
*50.00 USD will be applied to Registration Fee when you register

Abstract Details: It is best to submit your abstract early. Abstract and registration spaces are limited and may fill prior to the abstract or discounted registration deadlines. Submitting an abstract does not constitute or guarantee registration.

Submitting your abstract early allows us to:
  • submit your abstract to organizers to be considered for a short talk
  • accept your abstract online
  • include your abstract on our website and in our secure mobile app
  • reserve your space at the meeting for a poster presentation.**
**Submitting an abstract does not constitute or guarantee registration.
(The Abstract Deadline: is November 20, 2018)

Global Health Travel Award Deadline:

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time


Global Health Travel Award Details: You MUST complete your Global Health Travel Award appplication by the Global Health Travel Award Deadline and complete the other required steps (verify your contact information and submit a recommendation letter) to be considered for a travel award.


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Scholarship Deadline: October 23, 2018

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time


Scholarship Details: You MUST submit your abstract by the Scholarship Deadline and complete the other required steps (submit a scholarship application and submit a mentor letter) to be considered for a scholarship.

Click here to learn more about Scholarships.

Abstract Deadline: November 20, 2018

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time


Abstract Submission Fee: 100.00 USD*
*50.00 USD will be applied to Registration Fee when you register

Details: It is best to submit your abstract early. Abstract and registration spaces are limited and may fill prior to the abstract or discounted registration deadline. Submitting an abstract does not constitute or guarantee registration.

Submitting your abstract by the Abstract Deadline allows us to:

  • submit your abstract to organizers to be considered for a short talk
  • include your abstract on our website and in our secure mobile app
  • reserve your space at the meeting for a poster presentation.**
**Submitting an abstract does not constitute or guarantee registration.
Abstracts submitted after the Abstract Deadline will NOT be considered for a short talk.

(Discounted Abstract Deadline: is October 23, 2018)

Discounted Registration Deadline: December 19, 2018

*All deadlines end at 11:59 PM US Mountain Standard Time


Registration Fee: 945.00 USD* (includes 200.00 USD discount)
Student Registration Fee: 720.00 USD* (must complete student verification form)

*Includes 50.00 USD of your abstract submission fee

After the Discounted Registration Deadline:


Registration Fee: 1145.00 USD*
Student Registration Fee: 920.00 USD* (must complete student verification form)

*Includes 50.00 USD of your abstract submission fee

Registration spaces are limited and may fill prior to discounted registration deadline.

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We highly recommend that you not make a reservation with these companies or any other housing service! These companies' representations to participants have been misleading. Please report any calls or correspondence you might have received to Keystone Symposia and book only through lodging links in your Keystone Symposia account, an established travel agency or directly with the hotel(s) listed on our website.
No registration fees are used to fund entertainment or alcohol at this conference

Conference Program    Print  |   View meeting in 12 hr (am/pm) time


The meeting will begin on Tuesday, February 19 with registration from 16:00 to 20:00 and a welcome mixer from 18:00 to 20:00. Conference events conclude on Saturday, February 23 with a closing plenary session from 17:00 to 19:00, followed by a social hour and entertainment. We recommend return travel on Sunday, February 24 in order to fully experience the meeting.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19

16:00—20:00
Arrival and Registration

Palm Court
18:00—20:00
Welcome Mixer
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

Palm Court

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20

07:30—08:30
Breakfast

Palm Court
08:30—09:30
Welcome and Keynote Address
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Philip D. Gregory, Bluebird Bio, USA
Talk Title to be Announced

09:30—11:45
Genome Engineering Tools and Technologies
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Prashant Mali, University of California, San Diego, USA
Therapeutic Strategies via Genome Engineering: New Approaches and New Challenges

Coffee Break

Zoltan Ivics, Paul Ehrlich Institute, Germany
Transposons: Molecular Parasites Tamed for Advanced Genome Engineering

Alexis C. Komor, University of California, San Diego, USA
Early Career Talk: Using Uracil as a Genome Editing Intermediate

Peter Cameron, Caribou Biosciences, Inc., USA
Short Talk: Harnessing Type I CRISPR–Cas Systems for Human Genome Engineering

11:45—17:00
On Own for Lunch

11:45—13:00
Poster Setup

Salon B/C
13:00—22:00
Poster Viewing

Salon B/C
14:30—16:30
Workshop 1: Tools and Technologies
A collection of short talks chosen from the abstracts discussing exciting new approaches and techniques being developed for the engineering of genomes. The workshop would cover topics including computational approaches to design and analysis of experiments, harnessing DNA repair mechanisms for improved engineering, epigenome editing, screening methods and engineering of DNA binding and modifying proteins.

Salon A
Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

Prefunction 2
17:00—19:00
Structure and Mechanism of Genome Editing Systems
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Benjamin P. Kleinstiver, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Engineered CRISPR Nucleases to Enhance Genome Editing

Andrew May, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, USA
DNA Repair Outcomes Provide Insight into Genome Editing Mechanisms in Primary Cell Systems

Osamu Nureki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Molecular Mechanism of CRISPR and Structure-Based Development of Genome Editing Tool towards Medical Applications

Edward J. Rebar†, Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc., USA
Short Talk: Optimizing Nuclease Specificity for Gene Editing via Tuning of Cleavage Kinetics Enables Complete Gene Modification with No Detectable Off-Targets

Amit Choudhary, Harvard Medical School, USA
Short Talk: Synthetic Activators, Inhibitors, and Degraders of CRISPR-Associated Nucleases

19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

Salon B/C
19:30—22:00
Poster Session 1

Salon B/C

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21

07:30—08:30
Breakfast

Palm Court
08:00—08:30
Poster Setup

Salon B/C
08:30—17:00
Poster Viewing

Salon B/C
08:30—11:30
Engineered Models of Genetic Disease
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Danwei Huangfu, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, USA
Human Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Genetic Model for Human Development and Disease

Knut Woltjen, CiRA, Kyoto University, Japan
Isogenic Models of Disease from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

Coffee Break

Amy J. Wagers, Harvard University, USA
Gene Editing in Stem Cells

Erika Sasaki, Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Japan
Development of Genetically Modified Non-Human Primate Disease Models

Diogo Mosqueira, University of Nottingham, UK
Short Talk: CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing in Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Cardiomyocytes to Model and Treat Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

11:30—12:30
Lunch

Salon B/C
12:00—14:30
Poster Session 2

Salon B/C
14:30—15:00
Coffee Available

Prefunction 2
15:00—17:00
Design and Engineering of Cellular Devices
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Wilson Wong, Boston University, USA
Mammalian Cell Design Using Synthetic Biology

Timothy K. Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Synthetic Gene Circuits for Next-Generation Therapeutics

Charles Gersbach, Duke University, USA
Cell Programming with Genome Engineering Technologies

Yale S. Michaels, University of Oxford, UK
Short Talk: A Generalizable Method for Precisely Tuning Gene Expression Levels in Mammalian Cells with Engineered MicroRNA Target Sites

17:00
On Own for Dinner


FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22

07:30—08:30
Breakfast

Palm Court
08:30—11:30
Genome Editing Screens for Function and Disease Mechanisms
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Fyodor D. Urnov, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Editing Human Genome Control Circuits to Reveal Disease Mechanisms and Targets for Intervention in the Clinic

Jan E. Carette, Stanford University, USA
CRISPR-Cas Screens for Studying Virus-Host Interactions

Coffee Break

Nozomu Yachie, University of Tokyo, Japan
Tracing Dynamics of Cells and Molecules using DNA Barcodes and Genome Editing

Brittany Adamson, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Early Career Talk: Perturb-Seq: Combining High throughput CRISPR Screening with Single-Cell Sequencing

Max Jamilly, University of Oxford, UK
Short Talk: Pooled CRISPR Screening to Investigate Resistance to the Leukemia Drug Venetoclax

11:30—17:00
On Own for Lunch

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

Prefunction 2
17:00—19:00
Harnessing DNA Repair Mechanisms for Genome Engineering
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Homologous Recombination and End-Joining Mechanisms in Genome Editing

Beeke Wienert, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Unbiased Detection of CRISPR Off-targets in vivo using DISCOVER-Seq

Nancy Maizels, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
Gene Correction at Targeted DNA Breaks

Tetsushi Sakuma, Hiroshima University, Japan
Short Talk: Concurrent MMEJ-Assisted Fusional Knock-In of Long Gene Cassette in Human Cells

19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

Salon B/C

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23

07:30—08:30
Breakfast

Palm Court
08:30—11:30
Genome Engineering of Bacteria for Therapeutic and Diagnostic Applications
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Rodolphe Barrangou, North Carolina State University, USA
Engineering Lactobacilli for Human Health Applications

Jason M. Peters, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Bacterial CRISPRi Screens to Identify the Mode of Action of Novel Antibiotics

Coffee Break

Richard P. Novick, New York University, USA
Conversion of Staphylococcal Pathogenicity Islands to CRISPR-Cas9-Based Antibacterial Drones

Joel Berry, Caribou Biosciences, USA
Short Talk: Utilizing CRISPR-Based Genome Editing for Microbiome Engineering

Akos Nyerges, Biological Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Short Talk: Predicting Antibiotic Resistance by Targeted Mutagenesis and Directed Evolution in Pathogenic Bacteria

11:30—17:00
On Own for Lunch

14:30—16:30
Workshop 2: Delivery Methods
A collection of short talks chosen from the abstracts describing methods and approaches for in vitro and in vivo delivery of genome engineering technologies. The workshop would cover topics including devices for electroporation, mechanical introduction of molecules into cells, cell-specific targeting, viruses and viral-like particles, nanoparticles to address the key need to develop delivery vehicles for effective use of genome engineering approaches in therapeutics and research models.

Salon A
Dana V. Foss†, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Engineering Cas9 for T-Cell Specific Uptake and Therapeutic Genome Editing

Jacquelyn L S Hanson†, SQZ Biotechnologies, USA
Microfluidic Delivery of Bioactive Molecules via SQZ Platform Enables Efficient T Cell Genome Engineering with Preserved Functionality

Lauren Elizabeth Woodard†, Vanderbilt University, USA
Less is More: How Less Recombinase Expression Produces More Genome-Modified Cells

Taisuke Kato†, Niigata University, Japan
Gene Therapy for DRPLA Model Mice by AAV-Delivered CRISPR / Cas9

Eric Aird†, University of Minnesota, USA
Enhancing HDR efficiency by tethering DNA to Cas9 via a fused HUH endonuclease

Erin Morgan†, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

16:30—17:00
Coffee Available

Prefunction 2
17:00—18:45
Genome Editing for Treating Human Disease
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
Bruce R. Conklin, Gladstone Institutes, USA
Genome Surgery for Treating Neuronal Disorders

Leonela Amoasii†, Exonics Therapeutics, USA
Gene Editing Restores Dystrophin Expression in a Canine Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Justin Eyquem, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Genome Edited CAR-T Cells for Improved Treatment of Solid Tumors

Lukas Jeker, University Hospital and University of Basel, Switzerland
Short Talk: Repairing Foxp3 Mutations in T Cells Restores Regulatory T Cell Function

18:45—19:00
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)
Registered attendees can view abstracts starting on 01/19/2019

Salon A
19:00—20:00
Social Hour with Lite Bites
No registration fees are used to fund alcohol served at this function.

Palm Court/Crystal Ballroom
20:00—23:00
Entertainment
Entertainment is not subsidized by conference registration fees nor any U.S. federal government grants. Funding for this expense is provided by other revenue sources.

Palm Court/Crystal Ballroom

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24

 
Departure


*Session Chair †Invited, not yet responded.


We gratefully acknowledge support for this conference from:


Directors' Fund

These generous unrestricted gifts allow our Directors to schedule meetings in a wide variety of important areas, many of which are in the early stages of research.

Click here to view all of the donors who support the Directors' Fund.

Keystone Symposia thanks our Sponsors for generously supporting this meeting:

BlueRock Therapeutics Editas Medicine
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

We gratefully acknowledge additional support from these exhibitors at this conference:

Agilent Technologies, Inc. BEX CO., LTD.
Horizon Discovery MilliporeSigma
Synthego
 
Please stop by to meet these exhibitors during the conference.

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:

American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) Integrated DNA Technologies
Addgene
 

We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising:

CRISPR Journal, published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers

Special thanks to the following for their support of Keystone Symposia initiatives to increase participation at this meeting by scientists from underrepresented backgrounds:


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