ABOUT THE EVENT
Date: October 18, 2025 2pm - October 26, 2025 6pm EDT
Event Location: Brooklyn, New York
Curious to learn more about the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology? Get hands-on experience and unpack the hype and hope!
Four-part course:
Saturday, October 18, 2:00pm-6:00pm EDT
Sunday, October 19, 2:00pm-6:00pm EDT
Monday, October 20, 6:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Sunday, October 26, 2:00pm-6:00pm EDT
CRISPR/Cas9 is one of the most transformative recent developments in biotechnology, radically simplifying the process of editing genomes and increasing its accessibility. Want to learn how to do hands-on genome editing?
In this class you will:
Learn how to culture and work with Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewers yeast)
Assemble a plasmid encoding a CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene deletion
Generate a repair template encoding a fluorescent protein that will be inserted into the yeast genome
Use the constructs you produce to transform yeast and confirm the results by DNA sequence analysis
Discuss emerging technologies and applications of CRISPR in other organisms
