Conference organizer @VicMyer on the joint meeting of #KSgenome & #KScelltherapy : "Genome engineering and cell therapy are like chocolate and peanut butter. They're both great on their own, but put them together and you've really got something special." @KeystoneSymp
We now have @nika_shakiba of the Weiss lab for her short talk at #KScelltherapy, which has deposited over 670 plasmids with @Addgene (https://www.addgene.org/Ron_Weiss/
Speaking now at #KScelltherapy is @andrewng_synbio from El-Samad and Baker labs. I love his "dimmer switch" analogy for feedback control. Some of Andrew's plasmids can be found @Addgene : https://addgene.org/browse/article/28203422/
I've jumped over the #KScelltherapy session at the @KeystoneSymp in #Banff to hear @Addgene depositor Marius Wernig's talk. Some resources from the repository on iPSCs:...
Waldner of @CRISPRTX shares a slide comparing #CRISPR, TALEN, & ZFN for genome engineering at #KSgenome / #KScelltherapy . Though I was able to watch this technology evolve first hand in my role @Addgene (I was the "TALEN guy", briefly), hard to believe it's only been a decade.
Daniel Shoemaker at #KSgenome /#KScelltherapy talks about "off the shelf" cell therapies. Single-cell engineering > pooled engineering. This is why we @Addgene tell scientists who receive our stabs to restreak them and amplify from a single colony. Old wisdom; new application.
At the risk of spoiling my tips for this afternoon's #KSgenome/#KScelltherapy career roundtable, here's a quick thread of career resources I recommend (and not just because I wrote or contributed to many of them). First, the @Addgene career guide (1/n):...
Alex Marson (@MarsonLab) helpfully discloses at the beginning of his #KSgenome/#KScelltherapy that he will talking EXCLUSIVELY about T cells. 😆 #conferenceinjoke
For anyone watching Shengdar Tsai's talk at #ksgenome /#KScelltherapy who are interested in trying Cas9-3xNLS, there are several options @Addgene : www.addgene.org/search/catalog/plasmids/
Matthew Porteus at #KSgenome/#KScelltherapy gently reminds us that there are other types of cells besides T cells and iPSCs.
Long-time @Addgene depositor Scot Wolfe discussing repair pathways at #KSgenome/#KScelltherapy. A few blog posts for repair system crash courses (including one from my PhD supervisor, @dale_ramsden): blog.addgene.org/crispr-101-homology-dire... &...
Coming from a DNA repair background, I have been to a number of meetings with Jim Haber over the last 20(!) years. He's always good for a good quote during the Q&A: "I have a nerdy geneticist question..." #KSgenome & #KScelltherapy
Take home message from @jcornlab during this first joint @KeystoneSymp #KSgenome/#KScelltherapy session "Gene manipulation is action at a distance". Creating new tools is great, but we still have a lot of work to figure out what's actually going on at the molecular level.
A quick thread on this #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience. I'm so glad I can contemplate today at a @KeystoneSymp , learning from actual international women in science. Truth be told, the speaker ratio at #KSgenome and #KScelltherapy is...just OK. (1/n)
Hello, #KScelltherapy and #KSgenome grad students and postdocs! If you're looking for what's next and are curious about a thriving, fun nonprofit, @Addgene has multiple positions open. Find me if you have questions, and/or attend the career panel tomorrow!...
Wondering if you could get more out of your conference attendance? Take a look at these tips from @Addgene 's @jw_tsang . I've been to a lot of meetings, but I still haven't mastered all of these. #KSgenome #KScelltherapy...
Are you at #KSgenome or #KScelltherapy and presenting your first poster? Perhaps you're wondering how to even attend a poster session? Consider checking out this @Addgene blog post from guest blogger @BrittanyUhlorn. (I wish I'd had this in grad school)....
The one downside of going to a joint @KeystoneSymp is that I won't be able to see the talk of every @Addgene depositor who's speaking today. While I watch Erik Sontheimer and Ilya Finkelstein at #KSgenome, I will missing Stanley Riddell and Yvonne Chen next door at #KScelltherapy
Whoa! @carlhjune is actually talking about stuff I did in grad school! I worked on RAG-mediated translocations in B and T cells. #KScelltherapy https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1482478/
Interesting contrast between @doudna_lab #KSgenome keynote--these tools are evolving rapidly--and @carlhjune #KScelltherapy CAR T keynote: once you start talking patient care, things necessarily have longer time lines. But still, #CRISPR clinical trials happened fast.
Crystal Mackall introduces @carlhjune at #KScelltherapy, describing his work as a "Tour de force of endurance".
Looking forward to Jennifer Doudna's keynote at @KeystoneSymp #KSgenome & #KScelltherapy. Fun fact about the @doudna_lab : Their lab hosted the following amazing Plasmid Rap, sponsored by @Addgene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFfUFyUvP-w
If travel plans go...as planned, I'll be in #Banff tomorrow for the @KeystoneSymp #KSgenome & #KScelltherapy. For those of you who have been, is there anything I absolutely MUST do in Banff (that's not skiing, please)?
Are you heading to #Banff for the @KeystoneSymp #KSgenome or #KScelltherapy meetings in < 2 weeks? Interested in hearing about why scientists are a great fit for nonprofits? Come talk to me at the career roundtable! http://bit.ly/KSgenome20
