Coming up this Tuesday at 2 PM -- IGI's Rohan Sachdeva gives an in-person only seminar on decoding #plasmid #genomes. Join is in person in Berkeley! Learn more: https://ow.ly/VX4750Yj8lQ

Out today in Nature Plants — IGI researchers Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar and Dave Savage (Savage Lab) develop a "jumping gene" enzyme into a precise genome-editing tool. Learn more: https://ow.ly/Sf8Z50Yj3Yi

IGI's Brad Ringeisen on #CRISPR for disease elimination — listen to the Behind the Breakthroughs podcast here: https://ow.ly/s4uI50Yfq6h Or read the Q&A here: https://ow.ly/2BHC50Yfq6j

Coming up Monday, Feb 23 at 2 PM Pacific — a special seminar on science and pop culture from Australian National University's Anna-Sophie Jürgens! Join us live at the IGI building in Berkeley or on Zoom. More info here: https://ow.ly/hMNg50YfpVb

Thanks to New Scientist for coverage of exciting new work from Doudna Lab & first author Wayne Ngo — self-amplifying #GeneEditing for targeting hard-to-target organs like the brain. Read the article: https://ow.ly/fYu650YfseV Or the preprint: https://ow.ly/hfb850YfseT

Coming up Monday, Feb 23 at 2 PM Pacific — a special seminar on science and pop culture from Australian National University's Anna-Sophie Jürgens! Join us live at the IGI building in Berkeley or on Zoom. More info here: https://ow.ly/OBhg50YfpVa

NEW for @forbes.com: Nobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna’s plan to create a gene editing ecosystem to solve major problems in medicine, agriculture and climate. “I don’t want it to be a curio, a topic of academic interest,” she says. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Coming up Tuesday, February 17 at 11 AM Pacific — UC Berkeley's Tom Mann on signal transduction in anti-tumor T cells. Join us in person or on Zoom! More info: https://ow.ly/GuEr50YfrYR

Who should oversee the ethics of DNA editing? For Nobel Prize-winning chemist Jennifer Doudna (@innovativegenomics.bsky.social)the scientists who understand it best should at least be at the table. Listen to the full conversation here on Futurology: youtu.be/VpAxyrd8vKA

Brad Ringeisen, Executive Director at @innovativegenomics.bsky.social, shares his journey, from chemist to DARPA to working w/ #CRISPR legend Jennifer Doudna. Apple Podcasts tinyurl.com/IPMsBTBonAP Spotify tinyurl.com/IPMsBTBonSpo... shows.acast.com/behind-the-b... @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social

New from IGI's @jamesknunez.bsky.social and Patrick Shih -- a preprint showing that many transcriptional regulators from plants are active if put in human cells and vice versa, with exciting implications for biotech. Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Coming up this Friday, Feb 13 at 11 AM Pacific — UCSD's Kimberly Cooper on gene drives in mice! Join us on campus or on Zoom. More info here: https://ow.ly/BY1f50YbZgo

As society grapples with its understanding of RNA editing, scientists like Jennifer Doudna (@innovativegenomics.bsky.social) see treatments for terrible diseases hiding in plain sight. Listen to the full conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning chemist here: youtu.be/VpAxyrd8vKA

This week, four members of the UC Berkeley community, including IGI Founder Jennifer Doudna, were elected to the National Academy of Engineering — one of the highest professional distinctions for engineers (and #bioengineers). Learn more: https://ow.ly/Zivp50YcAV6

Coming up this Friday, Feb 13 at 11 AM Pacific — UC San Diego's Kimberly Cooper on gene drives in mice! Join us on campus or on Zoom. More info here: https://ow.ly/MqNK50YbZgj

Coming up in a few hours. Join us!

Today in Nature Communications, a team of IGI researchers from The Banfield Lab and Pam Ronald's labs uncover a new way to reduce #methane emissions from rice by influencing the activity of rice paddy soil #microbes. Read more: https://ow.ly/45j150Y3WsI#methane#microbes

New #cancer #immunotherapy research funding has been awarded to IGI's Jennifer Doudna and Alex Marson by the American Cancer Society! Learn more here: https://ow.ly/JCAH50Y7Mwi

Coming up Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 2 PM Pacific — Daniel Anderson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology on engineering materials for genetic medicine and living therapeutics. Join us IRL or on Zoom! Learn more: https://ow.ly/RoKW50YaCx1

With funding from the IGI, UCSF researcher Martin Kampmann has identified a waste disposal mechanism used by neurons to get rid of #tau protein clumps that play a role in #Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and other degenerative brain disorders. Learn more: https://ow.ly/ZSjQ50Y7Ofu

With new funding from the Gates Foundation, IGI's Venkatesan Sundaresan & Myeong-Je Cho, will develop new self-cloning mustard and millet in collaboration with researchers in India. Learn more: innovativegenomics.org/news/expandi... #AgResearch #FoodSecurity

Coming up today at 2 PM Pacific!

Coming up tomorrow, Columbia University's Jennifer Posey on assessing genotype-phenotype relationships in rare genetic disease. Join us in person on the UC Berkeley campus or on Zoom! Learn more and get location details: https://ow.ly/WRQl50Y7KNK

Out today in Science Magazine, IGI’s Ben Williams is taking a novel approach to studying human aging and epigenetics: using the plant model organism Arabidopsis thaliana, which completes its lifecycle in just seven weeks. Read more: https://ow.ly/fP9A50Y5BqB

New research from IGI's Jonathan Braverman, on modifying doxorubicin to circumvent multidrug resistance in #cancer. Read here: https://ow.ly/43MZ50Y42yY

New from IGI's Venkatesan Sundaresan, a review of synthetic #apomixis: https://ow.ly/KzeN50Y428V

Today in Nature Communications, a team of IGI researchers from The Banfield Lab and Pam Ronald's labs uncover a new way to reduce methane emissions from rice by influencing the activity of rice paddy soil #microbes. Read more: https://ow.ly/45j150Y3WsI#microbes

With new support from Google.org's AI for Science Fund, IGI's Spencer Diamond, Rohan Sachdeva, Yun Song & Matthias Hess, have launched a new project to develop a #ML framework that can predict #microbiome behavior in animal agriculture. Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/y7xctpp7

Did you know that the illustrations in our resources like CRISPRpedia are free to use for non-commercial, educational purposes? Check out our Science x Art page to see a selection of the amazing work from our designers and artists. https://innovativegenomics.org/science-x-art/ #SciArt

A new preprint from The Banfield Lab looks at mobile genetic elements with single-cell precision. Read here: https://ow.ly/hFBX50Y0nQA #microbiology

Exciting to see updates on this research, which Kelsey Hern started in 2023 as an entrepreneurial fellow at IGI! #microbiome

A new preprint on expanding the genetic code, from IGI's Jill Banfield, Peter Penev, and collaborators across the country: https://ow.ly/HiYO50XVNXR

This is shaping up to be one of the top conferences on microbiome editing!!

A new review from the Doudna Lab lab on tissue-targeted in vivo delivery of gene editors: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02945-w #CRISPR #delivery

Check out the latest episode of Rewriting the Code, featuring Jennifer Doudna and #SickleCell patient pioneer Victoria Gray who was cured with a #CRISPR-based treatment in a groundbreaking clinical trial: https://ow.ly/t6FY50XVNO7

As 2025 comes to an end, we look back at some of our favorite uplifting stories from the year. Starting off: For the first time, scientists say they have reached into the genome of a severely ill child and rewritten the unique misspelling in his DNA. www.statnews.com/2025/05/15/c...

Targeted delivery of genome editors in vivo - @doudna-lab.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social go.nature.com/4qKp6Tb

Did you know that the illustrations in our resources like CRISPRpedia and our illustrated scientific glossary are free to use for non-commercial, educational purposes? Check out our Science x Art page to see amazing work from our designers and artists: https://innovativegenomics.org/science-x-art/

A warm welcome to Flor Ercoli, our newest IGI Investigator! Flor is starting a lab at @ucriverside.bsky.social e.bsky.social where she will focus on #plant-#microbe interactions. Learn more about her path to science and what keeps her motivated every day: ow.ly/HyLi50XSKtg

During my postdoc in @therubinlab.bsky.social, @leosong.bsky.social and I aimed to make CRISPR-associated transposons more efficient for editing bacteria. Couldn’t have done it w/o a CAST of characters at IGI and beyond @innovativegenomics.bsky.social, @cresslab.bsky.social, @doudna-lab.bsky.social

We're looking for a Director of Intellectual Property to help us realize our vision of making genome editing technologies available to all who may benefit from them. Learn more and apply here: https://ow.ly/XyQt50XScem

New in Science Magazine Science Advances from the Doudna Lab, Rubin Lab and Cress Lab —Identification of proteins influencing #CRISPR-associated #transposases for enhanced #GenomeEditing. Read here: https://ow.ly/U0s450XS82n#CRISPR-associated

"I wanted to be an ecologist and protect nature — that was always my dream." IGI's Moi Expósito-Alonso on his path to running a research group at Berkeley, studying plant adaptation to climate change. Read here: https://ow.ly/8BuU50XAjpe

Plant synthetic biology explained in 101 seconds, featuring IGI Investigator Patrick Shih! Watch here: https://youtu.be/yf8Zt4LHnhI?si=6MGoC71CdZTfom7N

The world of genome editing is moving at a fast pace, and the IGI is right in the middle of the action. Here’s a look back at some of our most exciting news stories you don't want to miss from 2025. Read here: https://ow.ly/Z1n650XJXGS #CRISPR

National Geographic names CRISPR among the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years and gives @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social the last word on what's next. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Neurons are trickier to edit than most other cell types. A study from IGI's Bruce Conklin sheds lights on why, which could impact how new brain-based editors are designed. Read here: https://ow.ly/J0Aj50XAjLr

Congrats to #BioEGSB affiliate scientist Ben Rubin and team on publication of @therubinlab.bsky.social's first lead paper!

ICYMI: #CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna joins @euanashley.bsky.social on Episode 3 of The Future of Medicine for a deep, wide-ranging conversation about how #GeneEditing is reshaping the landscape of modern medicine. Watch on our YouTube or stream here: https://bit.ly/43LGRZv

Heartwarming news for the holiday season: KJ continues to thrive and recently took his first steps! See more pics and video here: https://ow.ly/PZQX50XLCor #CRISPR #GeneEditing #RareDisease