Somatic Cell Gene Editing

North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference
2021-09-30 - 2021-10-02 | Henry B. González Convention Center, 900 E Market St, San Antonio, TX, 78205, United States
NACFC provides a collaborative and educational forum for all CF professionals. The educational elements of the meeting program are targeted to physicians, nurses, research scientists, respiratory therapists, physical therapists, nutritionists, social workers, and pharmacists.
This annual meeting brings together scientists, clinicians, and caregivers from around the world to discuss and share ideas on the latest advances in CF research, care, and drug development and to exchange ideas about ways to improve the health and quality of life for people with CF.

Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology (4th edition)
2021-09-30 - 2021-10-02
Coming soon

Genome Engineering: CRISPR/Cas from Cells to Mice
2021-09-27 - 2021-10-04 | VIRTUAL
This interactive virtual course will provide training in genome editing and cell engineering in mammalian cells and mouse embryos using the highly efficient CRISPR/Cas9 system. The course will be split into two groups (mammalian cells OR mice) based on participants’ expertise.
Through theoretical and interactive sessions as well as remote demonstrations of some of the practical work in the lab, the participants will learn to design CRISPR targets using bioinformatics tools, generating gene knock-outs/knock-ins and target validation using the most current technologies.

Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology (4th edition)
2021-09-22 - 2021-09-23 | VIRTUAL
During this two day conference, the latest developments in the fields of Genome Engineering and Synthetic Biology will be presented by over 30 speakers from academia and industry. The world-renowned academics will showcase their latest research breakthroughs, while the technology developers in industry present their disruptive new technology platforms which drive the field forward.

The Transcription, Chromatin, and Epigenetics Conference
2021-09-19 - 2021-09-24 | Four Points by Sheraton Catania Hotel & Conference Center, Via Antonello da Messina 45, Catania, 95021, Italy
The conference will bring together scientists interested in chromatin, transcription, RNA, single cell datasets, single resolution microscopy, 3D topology, aging, longevity, ‘rejuvenation’, and age-related diseases. By convening researchers with a spectrum of perspectives, we hope to make a significant contribution to the field and accelerate the understanding of epigenetic regulation in aging and diseases.

Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers
2021-08-18 - 2021-08-20 | VIRTUAL
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 and related bacterial defense systems.
Organizers: Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley/HHMI
David Liu, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Nanoporous Materials and Their Applications
2021-08-08 - 2021-08-13 | Proctor Academy, 204 Main Street, Andover, NH, 03216, United States
The description for this conference is being developed by the conference chairs. Please check back regularly for updates to this information.

Epigenetic Information: Mechanisms, Memory and Inheritance
2021-08-08 - 2021-08-13 | Holderness School, 33 Chapel Lane, Holderness, NH, 03245, United States
The field of epigenetics ranges from the phenomenological to detailed understanding of molecular mechanisms. This meeting focuses on diverse systems, approaches, and experimental innovations to discern the core principles of non-genetic mechanisms of inheritance. Topics will include the nature of epigenetic memory in the germ line and soma, across cell division, during development, in response to the environment, and in disease states. Diverse forms of epigenetic information will be considered.

Nanoporous Materials and Their Applications (GRS): Order and Disorder in Functional Materials
2021-08-07 - 2021-08-08 | Proctor Academy, 204 Main Street, Andover, NH, 03216, United States
Nanoporous materials have a broad range of capabilities, which have enabled their use in many industrially relevant processes. The utility of each material is driven by understanding and controlling the order and disorder in the system through theoretical understanding, targeted synthesis, and material engineering. This meeting focuses on building relationships between young scientists engaged in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of porous materials by providing an informal, collaborative environment renowned for facilitating open discussion of unpublished, cutting-edge research. Through crafted discussion sessions as well as casual poster sessions, the GRS aims to accelerate the advancement of fundamental understanding and subsequent application of functional porous materials by facilitating the exchange of ideas in an open scientific forum.

Epigenetic Mechanisms in Genome Regulation, Development and Evolution
2021-08-07 - 2021-08-08 | Holderness School, 33 Chapel Lane, Holderness, NH, 03245, United States
The chair is currently developing a description for this conference. This information will be available by October 7, 2020. Please check back for updates.

RNA/DNA Editing and Epitranscriptomics Across Biological Systems
2021-08-01 - 2021-08-06 | Ventura Beach Marriott, 2055 Harbor Boulevard, Ventura, CA, 93001, United States
As is the tradition for this conference, we will strive to provide a gender balanced and an ethnically and geographically diverse meeting that allows investigators to present novel findings and new approaches while also providing a collegial opportunity for all participants to interact.

RNA Editing
2021-08-01 - 2021-08-06 | Ventura Beach Marriott, 2055 Harbor Boulevard, Ventura, CA, 93001, United States
The GRC on RNA editing is the premier international meeting dedicated to nucleic acid modifications. Modifications to the common nucleosides found in DNA and RNA have been known for many years. However, recent advances in analytical techniques for their detection, along with a deeper understanding of the broad impact these modifications have on fundamental biological processes, including human disease, have caused a renaissance in their study.

RNA Editing (GRS)
2021-07-31 - 2021-08-01 | Ventura Beach Marriott, 2055 Harbor Boulevard, Ventura, CA, 93001, United States
The seminar chair is currently developing an outline of the program components for this GRS. Please check back regularly for updates to this information.

Genome Writers Guild Conference 2021
2021-07-28 - 2021-07-30 | VIRTUAL
Due to the uncertainty of COVID we are planning for an entirely virtual meeting with the potential for a blended event. If possible, Thursday and Friday events will also be held both in-person at the Graduate Hotel [Minneapolis] and online.

Drug Discovery to Precision Therapeutics: Novel Mechanisms, Models and Technologies
2021-07-11 - 2021-07-16 | Holderness School, 33 Chapel Lane, Holderness, NH, 03245, United States
The 50th Gordon Research Conference on Drug Metabolism will approach ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination) science from a perspective that focuses on patients as unique individuals, in contrast to the more traditional “population” perspective, as a preparatory step to delivering precision therapeutics.

Translational Models and Technologies to Predict Drug Disposition and Response
2021-07-10 - 2021-07-11 | Holderness School, 33 Chapel Lane, Holderness, NH, 03245, United States
The Gordon Research Seminar on Drug Metabolism is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

Gene-Targeted Therapies: Early Diagnosis and Equitable Delivery
2021-06-17 12:00 - 16:30 (America/Chicago) | VIRTUAL
Currently, technological developments are offering the hope of new therapies for individuals with rare disease at a pace that has the potential for significantly challenging the existing infrastructure for efficient, effective, and equitable delivery. It is important therefore, to plan and be prepared for these challenges. Changes need to be implemented to improve the process of getting more treatments to more patients, more quickly.
June 17th will focus on identifying gaps that need to be addressed to facilitate the effective dissemination of treatments in an equitable manner.

The Genome Engineering Conference: Cutting-edge Research and Applications
2021-06-13 - 2021-06-17
RESCHEDULING IN PROGRESS

The European Human Genetics Conference 2021
2021-06-12 - 2021-06-15 | VIRTUAL
Coming Soon.

Gene-Targeted Therapies: Early Diagnosis and Equitable Delivery
2021-06-10 12:00 - 16:30 | VIRTUAL
Currently, technological developments are offering the hope of new therapies for individuals with rare disease at a pace that has the potential for significantly challenging the existing infrastructure for efficient, effective, and equitable delivery. It is important therefore, to plan and be prepared for these challenges. Changes need to be implemented to improve the process of getting more treatments to more patients, more quickly.
June 10th will focus on identifying existing systems that can be leveraged or adapted to bring treatments to the individuals who can benefit from them.

The 5th International Conference on Retinoids
2021-06-09 - 2021-06-10
This is the only international conference that focuses on Vitamin A. In a spirit of cross-disciplinary education, this meeting provides a “home base” for diverse scientists to review the latest concepts and information about retinoid biology and to assess new developments.
This virtual conference brings together researchers who study retinoids to address the broad spectrum of retinoid actions and application in a comprehensive and integrative manner. This SRC benefits new investigators through mentoring opportunities and career development sessions and provides an excellent venue for established investigators less familiar with the field, allowing them to gain a better perspective on the increasingly complex biology of retinoids.

Biotherapeutics and Vaccines Development Gordon Research Conference Patient-Centric, Modality-Independent, Data-Driven Biotherapeutic and Vaccine Developmen
2021-06-06 - 2021-06-11 | Tremont House, 200 Ship's Mechanic Row, Galveston, TX, 77550, United States
Biotherapeutics, including protein and nucleic acid-based therapeutics, cell and gene therapies, and vaccines, play an important role in maintaining and improving global public health which is particularly critical in the face of public health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. They are also being developed to treat a wide variety of serious medical conditions including infectious diseases, cancer, auto-immune, cardio-vascular, gastro-intestinal and neurological disorders. The development of biotherapeutics and vaccines, from candidate engineering and selection, through expression, purification, formulation, analytical characterization and finally delivery to patients, is a highly inter-disciplinary scientific field.

Large Animals Genetic Engineering Summit
2021-06-06 - 2021-06-09 | The Chateaux Deer Valley, 7815 Royal St East, Park City, UT, 84060, United States
Remarkable developments in genome editing are revolutionizing medicine and agriculture as large animal genomes can, for the first time, be modified with sophistication and efficiency so far only achievable in the mouse. This technology allows for improvement in livestock production traits, agricultural animal health and welfare, and generation of more refined large animal models for biomedical applications. The summit will bring together reproductive biologists, geneticists, molecular biologists, animal model developers, preclinical and clinical researchers, and representatives of federal research and regulatory agencies.

Neurodegenerative Diseases: Genes, Mechanisms and Therapeutics
2021-06-05 - 2021-06-09 | VIRTUAL
This conference aims to provide an integrated discussion of the latest advances in research and therapeutic development for neurodegenerative diseases. Our goals are to focus on the roles of genetic risk factors and their contributions to glial and neuronal health in the aging brain, the biophysical properties of protein misfolding and the propagation of disease-specific proteinopathy, the role of intracellular vesicular trafficking in disease pathogenesis, new insights into the diverse role of glia, innate immunity and microbiomes in neurodegeneration, and novel therapeutic approaches that specifically target each of the novel biological areas. We anticipate that this conference will stimulate more discussions and promote new collaborations among scientists in the academia and industry that ultimately lead to new therapeutic targets to combat neurodegenerative diseases.

Gene-Targeted Therapies: Early Diagnosis and Equitable Delivery
2021-06-03 12:00 - 16:30 | VIRTUAL
Currently, technological developments are offering the hope of new therapies for individuals with rare disease at a pace that has the potential for significantly challenging the existing infrastructure for efficient, effective, and equitable delivery. It is important therefore, to plan and be prepared for these challenges. Changes need to be implemented to improve the process of getting more treatments to more patients, more quickly.
June 3rd will focus on defining:

Who are the individuals that could benefit from gene-targeted therapies – now and in the future?

What novel approaches are needed to enable development of gene-targeted therapies for all genetic rare diseases – now and in the future?

When is the optimal time to identify individuals who could benefit from gene-targeted therapies (e.g., newborn screening)

CRISPR 2020
2021-06-01 - 2021-06-10 | VIRTUAL
The Paris CRISPR 2020 meeting has been cancelled.
The CRISPR 2021 meeting will be organized virtually
from June 1 to 10, 2021.
Mark your calendar!

Histone and DNA Modifications
2021-05-30 - 2021-06-04 | Mount Holyoke College, 50 College Street, South Hadley, MA, 01075, United States

GECT 2021
2021-05-29 - 2021-05-31 | Grand Link Hotel, No. 42 Chuanshan Road, Guilin City
Int’l Conference on Gene Editing and CRISPR Technologies (GECT 2021) will be held from May 29-31, 2021 in Guilin, China. GECT 2021 will cover issues on Biomedicine, Clinical Application of Gene Editing,CRISPR Systems and CRISPR Technologies,Effective Delivery for Genes in Vitro,Gene Knock In and Genomic Screening,Genome Engineering and DNA repair,Single Base Editing, etc. It dedicates to creating a stage for exchanging the latest research results and sharing the advanced research methods.

RNA 2021
2021-05-25 - 2021-06-05 | VIRTUAL
The 26th Annual Meeting of the RNA Society will be a Virtual Meeting, from May 25 to June 5, 2021.
SCGE Speaker: Jennifer Doudna, PhD

The 15th International Adenovirus Meeting
2021-05-18 - 2021-05-22 | Beatriz Toledo Hotel, Concilios de Toledo St, Toledo, Spain
Adenoviruses are associated with gastroenteritis, conjunctivitis, respiratory and urinary tract infections which in general have low clinical relevance. However, they can cause severe pathologies, even life-threatening, in immunosuppressed individuals. There is no efficient treatment for adenovirus infections approved so far.
Adenoviruses can also produce serious disease in poultry and other domestic animals, resulting in economic losses. Remarkably, adenoviruses are also the most widely used vectors in the clinical gene therapy field.
Many groups are working to modify the natural properties of adenoviruses and turn them into tools for vaccination, gene transfer, or oncolysis.
The International Adenovirus Meeting is the gathering point for scientists interested in all aspects of adenovirus infection. Worldwide experts share their ideas and latest results on adenovirus detection in nature; their clinical impact; their uses in virotherapies; assembly of the infectious particle; and interaction with the host.
