New preprint from Dave Savage (Savage Lab) and Yun S. Song: Deep models of protein evolution in time generate realistic evolutionary trajectories and functional proteins. Read here: https://ow.ly/iJk950YCF8q #AI #AIresearch

Coming up today at 2 PM. Join is in Berkeley or online!

Coming up next month, a photo exhibit at SF MOMA will feature female founders, including IGI entrepreneurial fellowship alums Derfogail Delcassion (pictured) and Judee Sharon! Learn more or get tickets: https://luma.com/diversify-sfmoma

Coming up Tuesday, April 7 at 2 PM Pacific — UC Berkeley's Judy Chock will be giving a seminar on research security and international collaboration. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom: https://ow.ly/bg2650YCF4s

New preprint on looking at DNA modifications in microbes found in metagenomic data sets! From IGI's @archaeaologist.bsky.social and Jill Banfield (@banfieldlab.bsky.social)!

New in Nature Communications from IGI's Patrick Shih & collaborators at the Joint BioEnergy Institute: Causes and consequences of experimental variation in Nicotiana benthamiana transient expression. Read here: https://ow.ly/s0r350YzraK

In two new publications, researchers from IGI are creating ways to harness #TnpBs — a group of "jumping genes"— as a novel tool for #GenomeEditing, in humans & plants. Learn more about TnpBs and their advantages in a new article from Serene Cheng: https://innovativegenomics.org/news/what-are-tnpbs/

Coming up tomorrow (Wed). Join us in Berkeley!

👁️👁️ In a new paper, IGI's Niren Murthy & collaborators use #CRISPR to attack melanoma in the eye. Read more: https://ow.ly/Is3l50Yzr6V

@banfieldlab.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social

The latest on #CRISPR in #ClinicalTrials, including testing treatments for high cholesterol, lupus, GI cancer, sepsis, hemophilia, and many many more. Read here: https://ow.ly/s4c150YzswO

*And co-first author @ddingding.bsky.social!

Out today in Nature Biotechnology — a team of IGI scientists including Brian Staskwicz, Kris Nyogi, Dave Savage (Savage Lab), Peggy Lemaux, & first author Evan Groover premier a cell-based method for understanding how #photosynthesis genes can be turned "up" or "down" https://ow.ly/KHWg50YyWbR

In a one-of-a-kind project, IGI's Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) tracks how plants adapt to #ClimateChange, following 30 different sites across the globe. Out today in Science Magazine! Read more: https://ow.ly/tSKA50YyVR5

Coming up Thursday, April 2 at 10:30 AM Pacific — Mark Mimee, Assistant Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, will be giving a seminar on gut #microbiome engineering. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom: https://ow.ly/ak6X50Yyo7L

📣🍫🍫New paper alert: Stable Inheritance of Transgene and Yellow Fluorescent Protein Gene Expression in Progeny of Transgenic Cacao Plants. Read here: https://ow.ly/NTmp50YxT9r

Coming up Wednesday, April 1 at 2 PM Pacific — John Reed, Executive VP of Innovative Medicine at Johnson & Johnson, will be giving a seminar on using deep disease knowledge to create transformational medicines and drive portfolio growth. Join us in Berkeley: https://ow.ly/3hyX50YynYF

Hot off the presses — our 2026 review of #CRISPR in #ClinicalTrials. Read here for the latest on CRISPR for #cancer, #HeartDisease, #AutoimmuneDisorders, #infections, #RareDisease, and more: https://ow.ly/XkI550YxSPv

Coming up tomorrow!

Coming up Tuesday, March 24 at 2 PM Pacific — A talk from Detlef Weigel (PlantEvolution 🌱🌾) Director of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, on how genetic conflicts inform the constraints of plant immunity. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom. More here: https://ow.ly/gzj650YwYN2

Out today in @nature.com a team of researchers across @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social, @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, and Duke University led by IGI Investigator @j-eyquem.bsky.social use #CRISPR — in vivo — to create cancer-fighting immune cells. Learn more: innovativegenomics.org/news/in-vivo...

Coming up today at 2 PM Pacific! Join us in Berkeley on or Zoom.

IGI's @lianafaye.bsky.social on using #AI to decode #RNA, for Ignite Talks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUlu...

IGI researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF are collaborating on a new effort to make an in vivo CAR-T for #cancer. Cytiva, a @danahercorporation.bsky.social subsidiary, is the leading the project, with funding from ARPA-H. Learn more: https://ow.ly/5KFN50YuVu6#cancer

Coming up a week from today, on Tuesday, March 18 at 2 PM Pacific — join us live in Berkeley or on Zoom for a talk from UBC Science's Carolina Tropini (TropiniLab@UBC) on engineering the gut #microbiome! Learn more: https://ow.ly/jbiQ50YtBtv

#Postdoc spotlight: IGI's Erin Doherty, who studies the arms race between #viruses and hosts. Read more: https://ow.ly/2lcL50Yrskh

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

Today at 2 PM Pacific!

Coming up tomorrow (Tuesday, March 10) at 2 PM Pacific — join us live in Berkeley or on Zoom for a talk from IGI's Shriya Rangarajan and Gabriella Subia Smith on lessons from farmer engagement on #CRISPR-editing crops! Learn more: https://ow.ly/phIW50YolNz

Out recently 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/sa4w50Yj3Yr

Thanks to UCSF Pediatrics for this great feature on UCSF-IGI work to create genetic medicines for severe immunodeficiency in children — featuring IGI Investigator Matthew Kan! Read here: https://ow.ly/54Ov50YomfK

From @innovativegenomics.bsky.social: recent research by @benpwilliams.bsky.social and @daweidai08.bsky.social suggests that Arabidopsis thaliana, a model organism in plant biology, could help scientists study aging at the molecular level. innovativegenomics.org/news/how-a-t...

Coming up a week from today, on Tuesday, March 10 at 2 PM Pacific — join us live in Berkeley or on Zoom for a talk from IGI's Public Impact team on lessons from farmer engagement on #CRISPR-editing crops! Learn more: https://ow.ly/I7Z750YolNw

Check out our new paper using mass spectrometry and cryo-EM to show ribosomal incorporation and accommodation of β-hydroxy acid stereoisomers, bringing us closer to ribosomal synthesis of non-natural polymers. @c-majumdar.bsky.social @jhdcate.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

We're collaborating with the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network to create the Center for Pediatric #CRISPR cures, which will bring personalized genomic medicines to children with rare diseases. Learn more https://ow.ly/X60p50YnzgT#CRISPR #RareDiseaseDay

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: https://innovativegenomics.org/news/expanding-self-cloning-crop-technology-for-indian-farmers/

Congrats to the 2026 recipients, and especially IGI's @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social! 🎉

Today marks the one-year anniversary of a medical breakthrough: a personalized #CRISPR treatment for a baby boy with a rare and fatal metabolic disease. The IGI and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative are teaming up to create treatments for more children with rare genetic disorders: https://ow.ly/JHzs50Yispl

Congratulations to #NASmembers David Baker, Moungi Bawendi, Anny Cazenave, Jennifer Doudna, Piotr Indyk, Ursula Keller, and Karen Wooley on their recent election to the National Academy of Engineering! 🎉 #ICYMI, see the full list of new members here: www.nae.edu/345149/NAENe...

“The best that I can do in terms of making the next breakthrough or discovery is not to do it by myself, but to enable other scientists to do it” — Jennifer Doudna www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Exciting new paper from IGI's Petros Giannikopoulos and collaborators, who have created a microfluidic obstacle course for red blood cells to measure red blood cell health in individuals with #SickleCellDisease. Read here: https://ow.ly/rSkf50YirHR

Coming up today at 2 PM Pacific -- join us IRL or on Zoom for a special seminar on science x pop culture!

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