FGE2023 IGIB

Frontiers in Genome Engineering Conference 2023 (FGE2023) is the fifth meeting in the series that is at the exciting venue of Goa, INDIA.

[IISER Bhopal @iiserbhopal]

Dr Ajit Chande, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences IISER Bhopal delivered a talk titled 'Chemical Genetics Approach Identifies Stimulators of CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing' at the FGE 2023 conference organized by CSIR-IGIB & BITS-Pilani Goa from Nov 14-16, 2023

[Debojyoti Chakraborty @Debojyoti_C]

Thank you for participating and highlighting the need for a therapy that can serve sickle cell warriors in India. The panel discussion moderated by Barbara Cheifet, chief editor @NatureBiotech on the equity and accessibility of CRISPR therapies remains a highlight of @FGE2023

[Debojyoti Chakraborty @Debojyoti_C]

A feast of top quality talks, deliberations on CRISPRtx accessibility, poster sessions and above all a lot of fun concludes in Goa @DirectorBITSGoa. Thank you everyone at @IGIBSocial @CSIR_IND who helped make this happen! @XueSherryGao @BKleinstiver @randall_platt

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Dona Paula Jetty story: https://t.co/c43bEVTHhU.

MiraMari Beach: https://t.co/LPgsHPQv6y

Spice Plantation: https://t.co/2uvOfGuFr8

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Day 4 (17th November 2023) was our day of sight seeing (Dona Paula Jetty, Miramar Beach & Spice Plantation) for the organizers, volunteers and the speakers
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A gala dinner was the absolute unofficial end to the event @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

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...followed by prize distribution for the poster presenters and winners of the quiz session @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

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The day ended with a panel discussion on "Genome editing therapies: Availability, accessibility and the way forward"
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Dr. Jia Chen from @ShanghaiTechUni was another virtual presenter of the day, who gave a talk on "Base editing of the HBG promoter induced potent fetal hemoglobin with no detectable off-target mutations in human HSCs" @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

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Dr. @GogoLiu gave a talk on "Development of novel gene-editing tools inspired by the "RNA world" and was our virtual presenter of the day @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

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Dr. @lecong from @Stanford was our virtual presenter, gave a talk titled "Metagenomic mining and engineering of single-strand recombinase for cleavage-free knock-in of long sequences in human and mouse cells" @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

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Dr. @Ajit_IISER from @iiserbhopal presented his work titled "Chemical genetics approach identifies stimulators of CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene editing" @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

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Dr Indumathi Mariappan from @lvprasadeye presented her incredible work in her talk titled "CRISPR tools to generate iPSC and zebrafish models to study eye diseases" @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial #FGE23Goa #FGE2023Goa

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Dr. Keiji Nishida presented his work titled "Basic editing tools with new features" @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial
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Session 1 of day 3 ended with poster session 2 and followed by a fun quiz session for all the participants @FGE2023 @bitsgoa @IGIBSocial #FGE23Goa #FGe2023Goa

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Dr. @Debojyoti_C from @IGIBSocial gave a talk on "Navigating the translational route of CRISPR therapies in India" making us understand the need of frugal solutions for a developing nation, @FGE2023 @bitsgoa #FGE23Goa #FGE2023Goa