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Introducing CRISPRpedia – our new, free online textbook for everything CRISPR! Learn (& teach) about #CRISPR from its role in nature to development of the genome editing tool, to applications in research, medicine & agriculture. Check it out! #STEMEd

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"I'm always excited about doing science because I love the people I work with and I love the discoveries." – Jennifer Doudna, live (on Zoom) from our @UCBerkeley celebration! 🎉

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A historic day — @US_FDA approval of the first #CRISPR -based therapy.

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"You were always a star... The only thing better winning the #NobelPrize yourself is having one of your former students win it!" – Jack Szostak, Jennifer's mentor for her Ph.D. work @Harvard

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A new review from Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) & Joy Wang in @ScienceMagazine takes us through the last ten years of #CRISPR – and what to expect in the next ten:

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How it started: How it's going:

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We are launching a #COVID19 diagnostic testing lab on @UCBerkeley campus. Volunteer scientists will use robotics to process patient samples, with a turnaround of <24 hours from initial swab to patient getting result. Learn more:

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We are working as hard as possible to establish clinical #COVID19 testing capability at @UCBerkeley campus. We will update this page often to ask for reagents, equipment, and volunteers: Please RT and share with Bay Area researchers!

IGI COVID-19 Initiative

The IGI effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, provide testing to our community, and support rapid research on the pandemic.

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The @igisci at #Cal @UCBerkeley working towards establishing CLIA-grade testing capability on campus. We have made strong progress, but the following personnel and hardware could accelerate the effort further.

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"Getting girls into STEM takes representation, seeing real examples. If I hadn’t known that being a scientist was a possibility as a young woman by seeing it with my own eyes, I might not have ended up in the field at all." – Jennifer Doudna #WomenInScience Photo: @chrismichel

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IGI founder Jennifer Doudna has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! #CRISPR genome editing has opened up new & wide-ranging possibilities across biology, agriculture & medicine — and there is so much more to come! @UCBerkeley @UCSF @doudna_lab

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In addition to her #NobelPrize -winning #CRISPR work, Jennifer & colleagues spun up a #COVID19 testing lab at IGI in just three weeks! Check out our blueprint for setting up a testing lab: And learn more about our COVID research:

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Big day at IGI! We received our first samples for #COVID19 diagnostic testing, hand-delivered by Dori Tieu of the @CityofBerkeley Fire Department this morning. We will test our firefighters continuously to make sure they stay healthy. #igicoronatesting

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Reunited and it feels so good! Chemistry laureates @e__charpentier and Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) at Nobel Week Lights with the art work "un|fold" at @KTHuniversity . Photo by Clément Morin @NobelPrize #CRISPR

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IGI Founder Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) speaking with @POTUS at a meeting last month in San Francisco to discuss AI risk mitigation! This is an official White House photo by Adam Schultz.

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We're beyond excited to unveil our newly ILLUSTRATED glossary! The immensely talented @christineliuart made an awesome custom icon for every entry and we couldn't be happier. Check it out!

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Jennifer Doudna's advice to young women: "Walk into a room like you own the place." #WomenInSTEM

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Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a revolutionary gene-editing technique

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10 years ago today, the paper that showed how #CRISPR could be used as a genome-editing tool appeared in @ScienceMagazine , paving the way for rapid advances in medicine, agriculture & life science research. Read more on the backstory & progress:

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New in @WIRED — "Jennifer Doudna believes #CRISPR is for Everyone." Read here:

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Want to learn about the fundamental virology of coronaviruses? #COVID19 Watch "Coronaviruses 101," presented by Britt Glaunsinger ( @brittaspen ):

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"I imagine a day when we can prevent asthma. Imagine that we could manipulate the microbiome to eliminate disease-causing molecules that the microbiome emits that give some people susceptibility to asthma." — Jennifer Doudna on Marketplace.

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Big impacts can come from tiny tools! We're thrilled to announce $70M funding through @TheAudaciousPrj to develop precision microbiome editing solutions for health & #ClimateChange – a @UCBerkeley @ucsfmicrobiome & @ucdavisCAES collaboration Read more:

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"You go into the lab, do an experiment, and get a little bit of knowledge about the world that unravels another piece of the mystery of nature. I love that." - #NobelPrize winner Jennifer Doudna

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‘The Joy of the Discovery’: An interview with Jennifer Doudna, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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A #CRISPR test for COVID-19 infection – with results in just 20 minutes! New from @doudna_lab , @SavageCatsOnly , @pdhsu , and first author @tinaliu_phd . Learn more:

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We're thrilled to release our new collection of illustrations of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes #COVID19 ! We're sharing these with a @creativecommons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license so you can use & adapt them for papers, talks, social media, homework, & more!

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Happy birthday to Rosalind Franklin, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA! 🧬🎂 In 1952, Franklin produced an X-ray diffraction image of DNA known as ‘photo 51,’ which gave crucial evidence of DNA's double-helix shape. #OTD #WomenInSTEM #RosalindFranklin

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Role models are key to breaking barriers. If you're not aware of the late, openly trans neuroscientist & champion of #InclusiveSTEM Ben Barres, take a minute to hear him from him in his own words: #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTQinSTEM Illustration by @mpk_draws

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Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) and researchers at @GladstoneInst used #CRISPR to target and rapidly destroy brain cancer cells 🧠 in an approach that could potentially apply to other highly mutated cancers. Read more:

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You've heard of elf on the shelf, but have you heard of...

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*Now accepting applications!* @toryburch and Jennifer Doudna have teamed up to offer the @ToryBurchFdn Fellowship at the IGI, supporting a woman entrepreneur in leading & scaling an early-stage business in genomics. Learn more & apply here: #WomenInSTEM

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Happy birthday to Rosalind Franklin, pioneering chemist & crystallographer, and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA! Learn more about her remarkable contributions to science: #OTD #WomenInSTEM #RosalindFranklin

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2022 marks the first year #CRISPR -edited foods could be found on grocery shelves – and it's just the beginning! Learn about how CRISPR is being used in plant 🍅 & animal 🐮 #agriculture in our year-in-review, written by IGI grad student @Carrotvolias :

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The #CRISPR documentary #HumanNatureFilm — featuring IGI leaders Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) and @UrnovFyodor — is now on Netflix! From Executive Producer @DanRather & @wondercollab .

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Some things you do in life fill you with a deep pride. Our documentary #HumanNatureFilm is one of those. It's about #CRISPR , a science revolution that gives humans the potential to control our own evolution. Wow! Please check it out and share with others.

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In her own words — Jennifer Doudna on the first time she heard about #CRISPR , in a conversation with Jill Banfield (both now IGI leadership!):

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The CRISPR documentary #HumanNatureFilm —featuring several IGI leaders—is available on demand on Amazon, iTunes, Vimeo, and Google Play! From Executive Producer @DanRather and @wondercollab . Preview and viewing links here:

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In a new paper out today in @NatureBiotech , the Doudna lab ( @doudna_lab ) develops #CRISPR -CSM for targeting RNA in human cells. Learn more:

A New Approach for RNA Targeting

Published today in Nature Biotechnology, a new paper from IGI postdoc David Colognori, IGI bioinformatician Marena Trinidad, and IGI Founder Jennifer Doudna develops the CRISPR-CSM system for use in...

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Out now: our paper on CasPEDIA! CasPEDIA entries have comprehensive info on structure, function, and sequences, plus experimental considerations. Like Wikipedia, users can suggest new entries as new proteins are discovered and described. More here:

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"Life-saving medicine cannot be treated as a luxury, and we cannot simply wait to let market forces drive prices down over time." — Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) on affordability & #CRISPR medicines in @WIRED . Read here:

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The structure of a CRISPR-Cas9 base editor (ABE8e) is revealed for the first time! Out today in @ScienceMagazine , this work is a collaboration between our @DoudnaLab and @davidrliu of @broadinstitute . Learn more:

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"She could see things nobody else could see—and a lot of them just didn’t fit.” ➡️ IGI Microbiology Director @BanfieldJill revolutionized our understanding of the microbial world. Get a peek into the mind behind the science:

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IGI is teaming up with @DanaherCorp to focus on creating treatments for two rare immune disorders! We hope to scale this work into a #CRISPR platform in which a new medicine for any genetic disease can be rapidly developed. Learn more: #RareDisease

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Darrion Nguyễn – "the Bill Nye of millennials" – is the science communicator and biochemist behind @lab_shenanigan , where he shares fun videos about science & lab life. #Pride #LGBTQinSTEM

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People have been asking us how we set up the #igicoronatesting lab at @UCBerkeley . We laid out a blueprint on @medrxivpreprint to help colleagues at other institutions establish their own #COVID19 diagnostic testing centers. Please RT and share!

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Being vaccinated DOESN'T mean that you should invent PCR in a psychedelic haze while driving a Honda Civic up the California coast

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There's a new Cas protein in town! The archaeal protein Cas14 is ~1/3 the size of Cas9, targets ssDNA, and indiscriminately cuts nearby ssDNA like Cas12. Fantastic collaborative work between @doudna_lab , @BanfieldLab , and @LBNLBioSci !

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You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, but have you heard of...

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At the IGI, every day is #WomenInScience Day.

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Twenty years ago today, IGI's @BanfieldJill published her seminal paper on genome-resolved #metagenomics , opening new frontiers in microbiology and ecology research! Read the original @Nature paper here: Photo credit @jgi

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Congratulations to Jennifer! #NobelPrize

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A proud moment for Jennifer Doudna and for @UCBerkeley @NobelPrize @SwedeninUSA "It's really heavy!"

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New research from @bstask , @NogalesLab & @raoul_martin shows how plants recognize pathogens – and paves the way to create synthetic immunity genes that could fight plant pandemics. Learn more: @UCBerkeley @PMB_Berkeley @QB3Berkeley @BerkeleyLab @HHMINEWS

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Introducing CRISPR Made Simple – our new online primer on DNA, genes, and gene editing. Made for kids or anyone starting from scratch, and featuring illustrations by @Miriampippaart ! Check it out: #STEMEd #SciComm #SciArt #CRISPR

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On the 100th anniversary of her birth, we are celebrating Rosalind Franklin, pioneering chemist & crystallographer, and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA! Learn more about her remarkable contributions to science: #OTD #WomenInSTEM #RosalindFranklin

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A phage army approaches and only Cris Perotein can defend the city of Bacterium from complete annihilation! Watch Jennifer Doudna play "Phage Invaders: A CRISPR Game." Can you beat her score? 🎮 Watch the video: Play the game:

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New from @doudna_lab , @pdhsu , and @SavageCatsOnly : a sensitive #CRISPR -based diagnostic test for #COVID -19 with results in less than an hour – and no nose swab! 🚫👃 Learn more:

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One week until Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) and Siddhartha Mukherjee ( @DrSidMukherjee ) discuss #GeneEditing and the future of humanity. January 18th @UCBerkeley . Unable to attend? No worries! We will be streaming live from the @igisci Facebook page 👉

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ICYMI, join us in a 360° virtual field trip and learn about how to E.D.I.T. DNA with #CRISPR . We had a blast filming our tour of the IGI with @__Ka1 and Jennifer Doudna!

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Congratulations to Dave Savage ( @SavageCatsOnly ) on being named an HHMI Investigator! Dave aims to make crops more productive by increasing carbon capture with a little help from bacteria. Learn more here: @HHMINEWS

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Happy #RNADay from the IGI!

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New: The first clinical trial using CRISPR to directly correct the genetic defect that causes sickle cell disease is now getting underway, involving the IGI and a team of experts at three UC campuses: @UCSFBenioffOAK @UCLAstemcell

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This Friday – watch the #CRISPR documentary @HumanNatureDoc , and then join Jennifer Dounda ( @doudna_lab ), @WalterIsaacson , and filmmaker Adam Bolt for a talk-back! RSVP to view for free and join the event!

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IGI Founder Jennifer Doudna in Vancouver yesterday telling the @TEDTalks audience about our 'audacious' new initiative in precision microbiome editing! 🧬 Learn more here: @TheAudaciousPrj #TED2023 #CRISPR

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Two Fellows from the first cohort of IGI's HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science Program — @navneetkmatharu and @jro_hamilton — will receive an award of $1 million each in seed funding for entrepreneurship! Read more: #WomenInSTEM #WomenEntrepreneurs

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More photos + video of Jennifer getting the @NobelPrize medal will be streamed tomorrow morning as part of the official award ceremonies! Streaming starts at 7:30 am PT. Watch here:

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Getting vaccinated does NOT mean you can "borrow" your colleague's X-ray crystallography work without asking.

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Congratulations to our Executive Director, Jennifer Doudna ( @doudnalab ), on being awarded a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship! Our colleague Noah Whiteman ( @NKWhiteman ), another @UCBerkeley prof, is a 2020 awardee too—well-deserved! 🎉

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Congratulations to my two colleagues, Professors Jennifer Doudna ( @berkeleyMCB @igisci ) and Alison Gopnik (Psychology), the other @Cal @UCBerkeley scholars awarded Guggenheim Fellowships this year!

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Thanks to @NatureBiotech for this great write-up of how IGI and others are using microbes to fight climate change! 🦠🌏Read here: @BanfieldLab @BanfieldJill @doudna_lab

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How can institutions safely reopen during the #COVID19 pandemic? IGI is launching the FAST study to address this question. In doing so, it will provide regular saliva testing to @UCBerkeley personnel working on campus. See for more info!

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Watch Jennifer Doudna combat an army of phages and save the city of Bacterium in "Phage Invaders: A CRISPR Game." Can you beat her score? 🎮

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“What I try to do is focus like a laser beam on what my purpose and what my endgame is." - Anthony Fauci, in conversation with Jennifer Dounda on the history and future of vaccines. Read more: @UCBerkeley @NIAIDNews @doudna_lab @BillGates @Cal @FLIxrisk

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In a new paper in @CellReports , IGI researchers from @doudna_lab and @MarsonLab mimic viruses to sneak #CRISPR into cells. Learn more from first authors @JRo_Hamilton & @connortsuchida (who made this cool image!):

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"The Little Enzyme That Can: Meet the Gene Editor CasX" The new kid on the block is tiny but mighty. Evolved independently from other #CRISPR -Cas enzymes, this small scalpel packs a punch well above its weight. #CasX

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CRISPRpedia is IGI's new textbook-style resource on everything #CRISPR ! Chapter 1 describes how CRISPR works in nature – Learn about the epic & never-ending battle between microbes & viruses! (And use our illustrations for free!) #SciArt #STEMed

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Join Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) and Siddhartha Mukherjee ( @DrSidMukherjee ) for an exciting conversation about #GeneEditing and the future of humanity. January 18th at Hertz Hall @UCBerkeley . Reserve your spot at this FREE event:

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Thrilling news in tough times: A year and half after being the first person to receive a ground-breaking #CRISPR treatment for #SickleCell disease, Victoria Gray is thriving! Her journey, as reported by @robsteinnews @NPR :

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Missed Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ) and Siddhartha Mukherjee ( @DrSidMukherjee ) in conversation? Watch the full video here: Who would you like to see on stage for a future discussion? Talking about what topic?

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We're floored at the outpouring of support to help us establish clinical #COVID19 testing at @UCBerkeley ! We are no longer seeking volunteers. If you filled out our form, we'll contact you if and when there's a role for you. Thanks for your support! 🙏 💪

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We are working as hard as possible to establish clinical #COVID19 testing capability at @UCBerkeley campus. We will update this page often to ask for reagents, equipment, and volunteers: Please RT and share with Bay Area researchers!

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Fantastic IGI project out in @nature today: "CRISPR-guided DNA polymerases enable diversification of all nucleotides in a tunable window." Dueber & Schaffer labs add directed evolution to the #CRISPR toolbox! Paper: Press release:

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IGI & @ucdavis scientist Pam Ronald has won the World Agriculture Prize for her pioneering work, including finding genes in rice that have lead to the development of high-yield, flood-tolerant strains used by millions of farmers! 🧬 🌍 🍚 Congrats @pcronald ! 🎉

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Congratulations to Pam Ronald on being awarded the World Agriculture Prize! @pcronald @ucdavisCAES @UCDPlantPath

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Congratulations to @navneetkmatharu , Lin Du & @JRo_Hamilton – IGI's 2022 HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science Fellows! Each is receiving seed funding and mentorship to grow new ventures around promising genomic biotechnologies. Learn more:

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New CRISPR teaching and learning tools! Watch lectures from the 2017 @igisci CRISPR Workshop.

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A few photos from the recent IGI summer picnic! Complete with IGI swag, our resident grill masters, Ruby Bean🐱, and a spectacular DNA cherry pie!

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For #IndigenousPeoplesDay 2020, we're cracking open a copy of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science by @KimTallBear , Canada Research Chair in Peoples, Technoscience & Environment. Fascinating read! #NativeInSTEM

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Celebrating Jill Banfield (right) as the winner of the 2023 van Leeuwenhoek Medal, given to recognize her outstanding accomplishments in the field of #microbiology ! 🎉🏅 Read more: @BanfieldJill @BanfieldLab @KNVM_online #WomenInSTEM

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"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off." Happy birthday to Barbara McClintock! Her groundbreaking discovery of genetic transposition was met with silence & scorn — before she was ultimately awarded a Nobel. #OTD

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November 20th! Register ⬇️

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The Rosalind Franklin Society presents the Women in Science Webinar with special guest Nobel Prize Laureate Jennifer Doudna! 👩‍🔬 #WomenInSTEM #womeninscience #womeninresearch #WomeninAcademia #CRISPR #synbio

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Hot off the @eLife presses — @flamholz , @SavageCatsOnly & @MiloLabWIS have engineered E. coli bacteria that can capture carbon dioxide from the air — and use it! Learn more:

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Congratulations to IGI's Microbiology Director @BanfieldJill – winner of the 2023 van Leeuwenhoek Medal, given to recognize her outstanding accomplishments in the field of microbiology! 🎉🏅 Read more: @BanfieldLab @KNVM_online #microbiology #WomenInSTEM

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Ten years ago today, the ground-breaking Jinek et al. paper was published! Learn about the key #CRISPR experiment in this great resource from @ExploreBiology written by Jennifer Doudna ( @doudna_lab ), @MartinJinek and IGI alum @kevdox : #OTD

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In work out today in @NatureComms , IGI members @peaceoliverkun & @pcronald used CRISPR-Cas9 tools to make rice enriched for beta-carotene, aka vitamin A precursor. Lack of vit A is a major cause of blindness & infection in developing countries. THREAD⬇️

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“CRISPR makes it possible to get to a genetic condition or change genes in an organism faster than if we were to wait for evolution to do it." Jennifer Doudna on the future on 10 years of #CRISPR in @TIME :

How Jennifer Doudna's Life Has Changed Since Discovering CRISPR 10 Years Ago

The landmark technology allows scientists to edit the DNA of any living thing

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4 years

IGI researchers @bstask & @kseniakrasileva have been awarded $3.2 million for fighting diseases in wheat crops. We are excited about what we can do with this generous support from @FoundationFAR & @2blades ! Learn more: @UCBerkeley @PMB_Berkeley @Cal

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Innovative Genomics Institute

@igisci

3 years

¡Atención! We are looking for a @UCBerkeley work-study student for Spanish-language translations of STEM content for the IGI, including news articles, video captions, social media, and more. Learn more and apply: #SciComm #LatinxInSTEM

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Innovative Genomics Institute

@igisci

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What's the latest news on #CRISPR clinical trials? We've got you covered with a comprehensive (and readable!) 2024 overview. Read here & share: Featuring insights from @UrnovFyodor and @j_eyquem !

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Innovative Genomics Institute

@igisci

3 years

You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, but have you heard of...

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Innovative Genomics Institute

@igisci

3 years

IGI researchers Melanie Ott and Jennifer Doudna, along with @UCBerkeley researcher Daniel Fletcher, have outlined the technology for a rapid #CRISPR -based #COVID19 test that uses a smartphone to get results in under 30 minutes! Learn more:

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Innovative Genomics Institute

@igisci

5 years

Crazy for CRISPR? Check out our IGI journal club designed for @UCBerkeley undergrads! Every Tuesday from 6–7pm, learn about the latest clinical trials, edited crops, and new CRISPR proteins. Email igi-events @berkeley .edu to RSVP! We'll even serve you dinner! 🌮🥪🍕

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Innovative Genomics Institute

@igisci

5 years

Undergrads: Sign up for our summer CRISPR Course! Over 3 weeks you’ll hear about 12 CRISPR topics from leading scientists! Take what you learn in the classroom and edit DNA in the @berkeleyMCB lab 🔬 Register for MCB N184 on @UCBerkeley 's course catalog:

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Innovative Genomics Institute

@igisci

1 year

👀 Do you see it?

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Innovative Genomics Institute

@igisci

4 years

Tune in to @CuomoPrimeTime on @CNN tonight at 7:25 PT (10:25 ET) to see Jennifer Doudna talk live with @ChrisCuomo about surveillance testing for #COVID19 and reopening schools.

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