🥂 Congratulations to IGI's HS Chau WIES Fellow Carlotta Ronda @rondalab.bsky.social! She is receiving $1 million in non-dilutive seed funding from the HS Chau Foundation to support her new startup. Read more her work in creating cutting-edge microbial medicines: ow.ly/nq8t50WZI8X #entrepreneurship

📣🍄 New preprint: Patrick Shih and his team develop an algorithm for analyzing control of gene expression across #fungi species: ow.ly/MXae50WYpXF

Join us today at 2 PM in Berkeley or on Zoom!

Going to @sacnas.bsky.social #2025NDiSTEM next month? Stop IGI's booth #824 to learn about grad school opportunities at the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social and sign up for the IGI careers opportunity list! Read about our experience at #NDiSTEM last year: ow.ly/Xq7950WX7FL #LatinxHeritageMonth

ON CRISPR: The Story of @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social — a new podcast from Walter Isaacson, expanding on The Code Breaker with key updates incl. Baby KJ. At its center: Doudna - Nobel laureate, CRISPR co-inventor & @innovativegenomics.bsky.social sky.social founder. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Recién salido de la imprenta ¡Nuestro resumen de 2025 sobre ensayos clínicos de hashtag#CRISPR! - en un formato de lectura amigable. ¡Échele un vistazo aquí! ow.ly/TZHH50WMoSl

ICYMI: IGI's Carlotta Ronda @rondalab.bsky.social is part of a team that developed a novel way to precisely edit the genomes of microbes in the #microbiome to defeat harmful infections. Learn more: ow.ly/taTJ50WTA7b

Coming up Tuesday, September 16 at 2 PM Pacific – Cameron Myhrvold of Princeton University will be giving a talk on #CRISPR technologies for studying #RNA! Join us at the IGI Building in Berkeley or on Zoom: ow.ly/u69950WU5qI

📣🦠 New preprint: @savagecatsonly.bsky.social has got you covered with a new approach to building bacterial deletion libraries with unprecedented speed and ease: ow.ly/ltja50WSjBu

“Being able to be surrounded by people who are working to support me and believe my success has helped me feel more confident to navigate these spaces.” Learn more about undergrads the IGI hosted this summer through the Emerson Collective's FirstGen Internship Program! ow.ly/VnYz50WN2C5

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📣 🍅 New paper alert: IGI's Brian Staskawicz teamed up with @gittacoaker.bsky.social at @ucdavis.bsky.social to reveal how tomatoes fine-tune the production of reactive oxygen species to fight pathogens. Read here: ow.ly/AQJr50WN3iu

$2 in economic activity is generated for every $1 the federal government invests in science. Science spending pays off. Tell Congress: Investing in science leads to a stronger America #SpeakUp4Science https://bit.ly/4mgBMQ9

This is one of the coolest, most impactful things coming out of the #CRISPR world, but also one of the hardest to get anyone to pay attention to. Sure, we can repair genetic diseases, but have you heard about apomixis in crop plants? No really

Self-cloning crops could transform agriculture – thanks to research from IGI's Venkatesan Sundaresan, who was awarded the 2024 Wolf Prize for his research on apomixis. Read more in this feature from @nature.com: ow.ly/Q7v350WQyne

Congrats to IGI alum Ellen Rim – who is starting her new roles as Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University today! This 🌱 🔧

Our paper on model cyanobacterial communities by @andrejakust.bsky.social is finally typeset and looks beautiful, check it out: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

¡Ya disponible! Nuestro resumen de 2025 sobre ensayos clínicos de #CRISPR - en un formato de lectura amigable. Descubra como se está utilizando CRISPR para tratar enfermedades cardiovasculares, cáncer, lupus, enfermedades raras y más! Más información aquí: ow.ly/TZHH50WMoSl

Congratulations to IGI's @erinedoherty.bsky.social who has been selected as one of the Berkeley Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellows! 🥂

📣 New paper alert 📣 IGI's @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social, @cresslab.bsky.social & @benadler.bsky.social team up with fellow #CRISPR pioneer Rodolphe Barrangou to engineer phages to edit diverse microbe species in their native communities in a recent @pnas.org pub. Read more: ow.ly/vZNR50WMohr 🧬🦠

New pre-print from Doudna lab members @erinedoherty.bsky.social & @jnoms.bsky.social ✨ Here we explore how recurrent adaptation of a single anti-defense protein fold enables evasion of distinct immune systems.

@jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @doudna-lab.bsky.social talks about the history and future of #CRISPR with Cleo Abram! Check out the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OXa...

We've got your back for back-to-school season with free resources for learners of all ages! Check out our Education page to access our textbook-style resources CRISPRpedia & CRISPR Made Simple in English & Spanish, our free-to-use illustrations, & more! innovativegenomics.org/education/ #STEMed 🧬

Federal funding helps power University of California innovations, from feeding the world to #AI to #CRISPR. Read more: ow.ly/LSr650WqIKy

Congrats to IGI's @pcronald.bsky.social on receiving the President’s Award for the Advancement of the Common Good from Stanford University! 🎉 Read more: news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Out now – our reader-friendly 2025 overview of #CRISPR clinical trials! Learn about how CRISPR is being used to treat #HeartDisease, #cancer, #lupus, #RareDiseases, and more! Read here: ow.ly/mRPl50WneTS 🧬

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? Tag us to show us how you're using them! innovativegenomics.org/science-x-art/

Congratulations to @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social on being the 2026 recipient of the @acs.org's Priestley Medal! Doudna was recognized for her high-impact discoveries on #RNA molecules with enzymatic functions, including the development of #CRISPR 🧬 ✂️. More 👉 go.lbl.gov/doudna-priestly 📷 Glenn Ramit

IGI's Executive Director Bradley Ringeisen on how #AI and #ML can enhance #genomics research. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPcO...

📣 IGI & Aditum Bio launch the IGI Incubator Program (IIP) for UC Berkeley PIs working on novel therapeutics & enabling platforms. Grants $200-400K + mentoring. 2-3 page proposals due Sept 15 2025. Details: innovativegenomics.org/igi-incubato... @innovativegenomics.bsky.social

🎉 Congratulations to Jennifer Doudna! The Nobel Laureate has just received the @acs.org‘s Priestley Medal for her incredible work on CRISPR-Cas9 🧬 and contributions to unlocking the power of RNA. 🧪 @biosci.lbl.gov @innovativegenomics.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

This summer, IGI hosted two fantastic undergrads, Aniyah Barnett & Nurashau Blount, from Hampton University! Learn about their summer research at IGI & our program increasing collabs between the UC & #HBCUs. Read here: tinyurl.com/3m6r9uwc #InclusiveSTEM

*ALERT! GLOBAL GENETIC DIVERSITY TREND RE-ANALYSIS* "Signals of consistent genetic diversity decline are not yet measurable in global meta-analysis" doi.org/10.1101/2025...

@acs.org is recognizing Jennifer A. Doudna with the Priestley Medal for her discoveries on ribozyme function, the Dicer RNase enzyme, double-stranded RNA processing, and CRISPR gene editing, along with her impactful international science leadership. cen.acs.org/people/award... #chemsky 🧪

In a recent paper, IGI's @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @doudna-lab.bsky.social and Jill Banfield @banfieldlab.bsky.social collaborate with UCLA's @jacobsenucla.bsky.social to create a new, tiny #CRISPR tool for quicker, easier plant genome editing! Read more in this Q&A with Steve: ow.ly/6Szs50VGElf

Did you know that the illustrations in our resources like CRISPRpedia are free to use for non-commercial, educational purposes? Check out our #SciArt page to see a selection of the amazing work from our designers and artists. Tag us to show us how you're using them! lnkd.in/e_CGXPAz

Untangling phage immunity systems can be really challenging but @owentuck.bsky.social and team used phylogeny and biochemistry beautifully to show how a pair of genes got repurposed as a component in multiple defence systems.

🧬 25 years ago, UC Santa Cruz posted the Human Genome Project’s first draft of the human genome sequence online, available to anybody for free. Scientists and doctors around the world have since used this data to accelerate diagnosis and treatment. Via @uofcalifornia.bsky.social: bit.ly/4eV96cm

Drop a bad guy you actually love.

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 work from our designers & artists. Tag us to show us how you're using them! innovativegenomics.org/science-x-art/ 🧬🎨

The Ronda lab's newest publication on targeted editing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Meet the Ronda lab members!

Out now in Nature Biomedical Engineering from IGI's Carlotta Ronda @rondalab.bsky.social — a novel way to precisely edit the genomes of microbes in the microbiome to defeat harmful infections. Read more: ow.ly/efsS50WsVen

Jennifer Doudna is helping drive the effort to make personalized CRISPR cures for children a reality. @innovativegenomics.bsky.social bit.ly/4nDufvI

We’re thrilled to announce IGI–Bakar Labs. This new building will allow the IGI to continue expanding our impact in health and agricultural applications of #CRISPR, and will be shared with the Bakar Labs incubator for growing biotech companies. Learn more: news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/17/c...

Out today in @natbiotech.nature.com, IGI's @urnov.bsky.social and leaders across the #biotech industry on expanding patient access to #CRISPR cures with platform technology.

More on the new Center time.com/7300257/cent...

🥳🥳 Our work exploring the core microbiomes of stable cyanobacterial communities is now out in the @isme-microbes.bsky.social Journal!!! Excellent work by @andrejakust.bsky.social and company! #microbiology #cyanobacteria #metagenomics

Out now from @diamondlab.bsky.social — stable microbiome communities using tractable cyanobacteria. An important development for folks working on cyanobacteria, microbial community formation and establishment in lab settings, and microbial community ecology! Read here: tinyurl.com/3cs2x6r7

Hot off the presses: our reader-friendly 2025 overview of #CRISPR clinical trials! 🧬 Check it out here: ow.ly/mRPl50WneTS