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