🌱 New preprint from IGI's Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB): "Catch me if you can: Arabidopsis thaliana lags in adaptation to contemporary climate change." Read here: https://ow.ly/hQF850Zlj0f

🏅 IGI's Brian Staskawicz (right) and Venkatesan Sundaresan (middle) receiving their Wolf Prizes in agriculture, along with 2025 co-winner Jonathan DG Jones!

Jennifer Doudna on #CRISPR #entrepreneurship, the sense of discovery in research labs, personalized medicine, #AI in biology research, and more! In conversation with Bloomberg's Emily Chang. Watch here: https://ow.ly/Ws4A50ZgsYq

Huge congratulations to Doudna Lab postdoc, Santiago!

The IGI Public Impact team’s Manar Zaghlula and Elizabeth Njuguna convened 50 regulators, innovators, and experts from 11 countries for a two-day workshop in Berkeley last week on an important topic: how do we create regulatory frameworks for genetically engineered microorganisms? #crispr 🧬🧪🦠

🧬📣New preprint from IGI's Brian Shy: "Ultra-large targeted DNA integrations in primary human cells." Read here: https://ow.ly/GvfE50Zc70I

"In […] ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking technology." #Conversations #CRISPR #GeneEditing #JenniferDoudna

The IGI & Bakar Labs officially broke ground today on a new building, a world-class hub where scientific discovery, entrepreneurship & innovation can thrive together. https://innovativegenomics.org/news/igi-bakar-labs-building-groundbreaking/ #crispr UC Berkeley

New in Cell (Cell Press) from IGI's Alex Marson, using #CRISPR to study #HIV: "Systematic discovery of pro- and anti-HIV host factors in primary human CD4+ T cells." Read here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.03.046

Congratulations to Santiago López in the @doudna-lab.bsky.social at the IGI for being selected for the 2026 class of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences! Learn about Santiago's work and the other scholars here: www.pew.org/en/about/new...

“The Joy of Why” is back. In our first episode of the new season, pioneering biochemist Jennifer Doudna talks about how her early, “rebellious,” decision to study RNA led her to a Nobel Prize. Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

CRISPR is commonly thought of as a repair tool for the genome. This clever new approach to fighting some of the most challenging cancers takes CRISPR back to its roots in nature, using it to seek and selectively destroy cells with a cancer signature. 🧬🧪

Our work at IGI is stronger thanks to the hard work and brilliant insights of researchers from around the globe! Case in point: IGI's Director of Technology & Translation, Fyodor Urnov, celebrated in Forbes 250: America's Most Successful Immigrants. Read more: https://ow.ly/fK6x50ZacE5

#CRISPR enzyme precisely detects and shreds #DNA in #cancer mutations once considered 'undruggable' #Chemistry #Health #Science #Technology

Out today in Nature, new research from Jennifer Doudna, postdoc @jingkunzeng.bsky.social, and collaborators shows a #CRISPR-based method for selectively killing "undruggable" #cancers by recognizing cells with cancer-causing mutations and shredding their DNA. Learn more: https://ow.ly/NRss50Z8tQK

The Nobel Prize winning CRISPR technology was applied to treating a patient with sickle cell anemia. Jennifer Doudna, pictured here, shared the Nobel Prize (2020) with Emmanuelle Charpentier for CRISPR. A reminder that work on CRISPR was supported by #NIH funding. 🧪

Super excited to share the final project of my postdoc career! We found that Borgs and mini-Borgs are widespread across diverse ecosystems. They don't just exist in Banfield Lab — they are everywhere! 🌎

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

🌱🌍 New in Nature Reviews Bioengineering, "Genome engineering of plant photosynthesis for carbon sequestration" from IGI researchers from co-first authors Evan Groover and Flora Zhiqi Wang, and the Savage Lab and Niyogi and Lemaux labs! Read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44222-026-00453-3

Coming up Tuesday, June 2 at 2 PM Pacific — Tandy Warnow of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will be giving a seminar on new methods for #microbiome analysis. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom: https://innovativegenomics.org/events/seminar-series-tandy-warnow/

IGI's Carlotta Ronda on engineering gut bacteria for a healthier #microbiome on CBS's Mission Unstoppable! Watch the 5 min video here: https://ow.ly/yojS50Z1fsX

Today at 2 PM Pacific — Join us IRL or on Zoom!

Coming up Tuesday, May 19 at 2 PM Pacific, David (Dudu) Burstein of Tel Aviv University will be giving a seminar on anti-defense systems in bacteria. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom! More info: https://ow.ly/5UaV50Z0jvx

For four years, the IGI Communications team has been working with UC Berkeley student illustrator Kaylene Son to bring our research to life with illustrations! Here are just a few of the images she's created for us over the years. Congrats on graduating & we can't wait to see what you do next!

We're proud to share the 2026 #ASGCT Catalyst award with our collaborators at CHOP and Danaher, and even more proud to see Baby KJ thriving after receiving the first ever personalized #CRISPR therapy! Read more here: https://ow.ly/WmpP50YYtby

Today (Tues) at 2 PM Pacific! Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom.

Editing genes in the liver with #LNP delivery is leading to impressive results for #RareDisease like ATTR and common health risks, like high #cholesterol. Learn about the latest #CRISPR clinical trials in our 2026 update: https://ow.ly/gYAz50YNc9h

A fascinating example of the kinds of research CRISPR enables, from IGI co-founder Jonathan Wessman's lab

Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 12 at 2 PM Pacific, IGI's Brady Cress (Cress Lab) will give a seminar on a new method for editing genomes in #microbiomes. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom! https://innovativegenomics.org/events/seminar-series-brady-cress/

In a new preprint, IGI's Dirk Hockemeyer identifies splicing and gene expression patterns in familial Parkinson's disease. 🧠 Read more: https://ow.ly/YW6350YUOFU

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @innovativegenomics.bsky.social's @urnov.bsky.social and science writers @philipcball.bsky.social and @michael-marshall.bsky.social about how sequencing the human genome changed our understanding of life. ❓What are your questions about DNA mapping? 📻 Listen:

Tuesday, May 12 at 2 PM Pacific, IGI's Brady Cress (Cress Lab) will give a seminar on a new method for editing genomes in #microbiomes. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom! https://innovativegenomics.org/events/seminar-series-brady-cress/

Today (Tuesday), IGI's Spencer Diamond (Diamond Lab) will give a seminar on modulating #microbiome collective behavior. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom! https://innovativegenomics.org/events/seminar-series-spencer-diamond/

Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

This Tuesday, May 5 at 2 PM Pacific, IGI's Spencer Diamond (Diamond Lab) will give a seminar on modulating #microbiome collective behavior. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom! https://innovativegenomics.org/events/seminar-series-spencer-diamond/

#Immunotherapy forever changed #cancer treatment — and now #CRISPR is changing immunotherapy. Get the latest on CAR-T and more in our Q&A with UCSF cancer researcher & IGI Investigator Justin Eyquem. Read here: https://ow.ly/181s50YNHCK

We present VIPR, a phage-encoded RNA-guided system that recognizes DNA with a noncontiguous code unlike CRISPR. Tiny, programmable, possibly ancestral to CRISPR immunity; VIPR is built around a striking RNA-DNA-DNA triplex.

It's #CancerControlMonth. 🧪 UCSF and Innovative Genomics Institute group develops in-vivo, site-specific engineering approach to reprogram T cells, providing a pathway for more efficient, precise, & widely accessible T-cell therapies. Charlotte H. Wang, Jennifer Doudna, Justin Eyquem#CancerControlMonth

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

#CRISPR could change the game for #cardiovascular care. Learn about the latest clinical trials testing genome-editing solutions to high cholesterol & other heart health risks in our 2026 CRISPR clinical trials review. Read here: https://ow.ly/gYAz50YNc9h

New from IGI's @urnov.bsky.social and Danaher's Sadik Kassim ⬇️

Chemistry Nobel Laureates Jennifer Doudna, David MacMillan, and Omar Yaghi on failure, success, and how "good chemistry" leads to good science! Read here: https://ow.ly/yQA250YN8N0

From one Nobel Laureate to another: Jennifer Doudna asks Demis Hassabis about how close we are to integrating #AI technologies with #CRISPR therapies for genetic diseases. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0gE...

This Thursday, April 16 at 10:30 AM Pacific, Addmore Shonhai of University of Venda will give a seminar on heat shock proteins and infections, and the potential to target Hsp70 as a #malaria treatment. Join us in Berkeley or on Zoom! More info here: https://ow.ly/3vPa50YItgn

Another breakthrough at Penn Medicine! This May Be the Most Important Medical Story of the Decade www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

Out recently in @natbiotech.nature.com — first authors @ddingding.bsky.social and @evangroover.bsky.social premier a cell-based method for understanding how #photosynthesis genes can be turned "up" or "down". Read here: ow.ly/KHWg50YyWbR

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

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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