GENOMIC EDITING IN BACTERIA

CNB WORKSHOP -13 April 2018

Organizers: Laura Cueto and Miguel Vicente

 PROGRAMME: http://www.cnb.csic.es/images/icagenda/files/ProgramaWokshopGenomicEditing.jpg

10:00 – 10:20 Registration

10:20 - 10:30 Welcome

Morning Session (chairperson: Lluis Montoliu)

10:30   A global plasmid network unveils the boundaries of HGT

Fernando de la Cruz (IBBTEC-CSIC; Universidad de Cantabria; SODERCAN, Santander, Spain)

11:00   Bacterial sRNAs: new tools in genome engineering and synthetic biology

Marta Robledo (IBBTEC-CSIC; Universidad de Cantabria; SODERCAN, Santander, Spain)

11:30  Towards automation of MAGE-ing and CRISPR-ing the genome of soil bacteria

Víctor de Lorenzo (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

Afternoon Session (chairperson: Marta Robledo)

14:00  Keynote lecture: CRISPR technologies for bacterial genome editing and beyond

Chase Beisel (Helmholtz Institute of RNA-based Infection Research, Würzburg, Germany)

14:45  Genomic editing a complex regulatory region: the E. coli zipA gene

Laura Cueto (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

15:15  Why innovative gene therapies based on CRISPR do need microbiologists

Lluis Montoliu (CNB-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

POSTER PRESENTATIONS