CRISPR and Beyond: Perturbations at Scale to Understand Genomes (Virtual Conference)

The CRISPR and Beyond conference will bring together biomedical researchers working on high throughput screening, genome engineering, and/or variant effect interpretation. It welcome abstracts on all major themes of this meeting to oral or poster presentations.

The conference will discuss (i) assays that focus on individual nucleotides in coding and non-coding regions to understand the effects of single mutations; (ii) focused- and genome-wide randomization methods that assess the influence of changing sequence structure and content; (iii) genome-wide knock-out, knock-down, and upregulation experiments to measure the phenotype when a gene is perturbed; (iv) interaction screens to uncover context-specificity of effects; (v) methods and applications of gene editing (vi) single cell readouts and other emerging technologies. Computational approaches are integral to all these topics, and will be covered by invited speakers, as well as sought for in submitted abstracts.