Inauguració Curs Acadèmic Màster VHIR 2019-2020 -Conferència a càrrec del Dr. Lluís Montoliu "From transgenesis to editing genomes: a journey on mouse genetic modifications"
15:30 h Benvinguda
15.45 h Graduació alumnes de la promoció 2018-2019
16.00 h Entrega de Beques Màster 2019-2020
16:15 h Conferència inaugural a càrrec del Dr. Lluís Montoliu, Investigador Científic del CSIC, Dpto. de Biología Molecular y Celular, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC)
Títol: "From transgenesis to editing genomes: a journey on mouse genetic modifications"
"Genome editing strategies have impacted a variety of disciplines related to Biology. Research projects on biomedicine and biotechnol have been dramatically boosted with the advent of genome editing tools, particularly the CRISPR-Cas9 system, imported from prokaryotes, where it functions as an adaptive immune defense system againsts viruses and intruding DNA molecules. In about 6 years the CRISPR-Cas9 system was shown to work in mammalian cells and, from there, to a variety of organisms and applications, including the efficent target modification of genomes at will. In this conference I will review the standard (classical) techniques for the genetic modification of mice, as the most common laboratory animals, and the most recent approaches based on genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 tools, highlighting pros and cons"
17:00 h Refrigeri
17.30 h Sessió Informativa per nous alumnes