Lab News

IGI Project Scientist Mark DeWitt and Scientific Director Jacob Corn have published a paper ” Genome editing via delivery of Cas9 ribonucleoprotein” with our collaborator Professor Dana Carroll in Methods recently.  This is a how-to guide for how to use the Cas9 RNP for high efficiency genome editing. It walks the reader through experimental design, the editing workflow itself, and analysis of edited cells.

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Diane Ferris and her son, Charlie Ferris Weiler were interviewed by the AAAS for their attendance at the March For Science in Washington.  She joined the march in support of science while setting an example for her family.  

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Our postdoctoral fellow Amos Jin Rui Liang will receive $100,000.00 grant from the BrightFocus Foundation for his study of Alzheimer’s disease focusing on the “Identification of Novel ER-phagy Proteins that are Implicated in Neurodegeneration” 

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The top UC Berkeley story last year features our postdoctoral fellow Mark Dewitt using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool to cure the sickle cell disease.  The #1 spot in the Media Highlights: The 10 Essential Stories of 2016.  His work was also picked up by dozens of sources, including the Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, Nature, The Scientist, Cosmos Magazine, and GenomeWeb. Roxanne Makasdjian and Stephen McNally produced a video that accompanied the press release and many versions of the story. 

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The management and research teams from Intellia Therapeutics came to visit UC Berkeley today. Thomas Barnes, Ph.D., the Senior Vice President of Innovative Sciences & eXtellia, and his teams shared their scientific expertise in CRISPR/Cas9 technology and clinical development experience to the members in Corn lab.

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Corn Lab post-doc Benjamin Gowen is attending the 2017 Immune Regulation in Autoimmunity and Cancer Keystone Conference in Whistler, British Columbia from March 26-30, 2017.  If you’re attending the meeting, you should come by poster #1030 to see his work on the discovery of an autoimmunity-associated IL2RA enhancer. 

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In February, Corn Lab post-doc Benjamin Gowen traveled to Australia to visit collaborators at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and  present his research at the 2017 Lorne Genome Conference. His talk was titled “Discovery of an autoimmunity-associated IL2RA enhancer by unbiased targeting of transcriptional activation” and featured work by members of the Corn Lab and Alex Marson’s lab at UCSF.

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