Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers 2026

Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers

August 11 - 15, 2026

Abstract Deadline: May 22, 2026

Organizers:

Britt Adamson, Princeton University
Maria Jasin, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kiran Musunuru, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Sam Sternberg, Columbia University / HHMI

Emeritus/Organizers:
Jennifer Doudna, University of California, Berkeley/HHMI
David Liu, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Jonathan Weissman, Whitehead Institute and MIT/HHMI

You are cordially invited to participate in the twelfth meeting on Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, August 11, and end with the banquet on Friday, August 14, with departures on Saturday morning August 15.

The specific goal for this meeting is to foster fruitful and creative interactions between researchers interested in applying these systems to genome engineering and related advances in a wide variety of organisms, together with scientists studying the basic biology of CRISPR-Cas and related bacterial defense systems.

This meeting will consist of six oral sessions and two poster sessions: In addition to invited speakers, a number of speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Topics:

CRISPR Biology
Novel CRISPR Technologies
DNA Repair
Transcriptome Cell Engineering
Therapeutics

Keynote Speaker:
Martin Jinek, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Confirmed Speakers:
Joseph Bondy-Denomy, University of California, San Francisco
Frank Buchholz, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Julia Carnevale, University of California, San Francisco
Fei Chen, Broad Institute
Hongbo Chi, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Suk See De Ravin, NIAID / NIH
Jennifer Hamilton, Azalea Therapeutics
Alexis Komor, University of California, San Diego
Xiaona Lu, Yale University
Ali Madani, Profluent Bio
Karen Maxwell, University of Toronto, Canada
Alexander Meeske, University of Washington
Jason Moffat, Hospital for SickKids
Luca Pinello, Harvard Medical School/MGH/Broad Institute
Waseem Qasim, University College London, UK
Dale Ramsden, University of North Carolina
Lea Starita, University of Washington
Siyuan (Steven) Wang, Yale University
Xiao Wang, University of Pennsylvania
Max Wilkinson, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Abstracts should contain interesting and exciting material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentations will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our website as soon as decisions have been made.

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. We have applied for funds from government and industry to partially support graduate students and postdocs. Please apply in writing via email to Val Pakaluk and state your financial needs; preference will be given to those submitting abstracts.

Social Media:

The designated hashtag for this meeting is #cshlcrispr26. Note that you must obtain permission from an individual presenter before live-tweeting or discussing his/her talk, poster, or research results on social media. Click the Policies tab above to see our full Confidentiality & Reporting Policy.

This meeting may be sponsored in part by funds provided by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, a branch of the National Institutes of Health and

Pricing:

Academic/Media Private Room/Private Bath Package: $1945 (Subject to availability.)
Academic/Media Private Room/Shared Bath Package: $1820
Academic Shared Room Package: $1660
Academic/Media No-Housing Package: $1240
Student Package*: $1545
Student No-Housing Package: $1125
Corporate Private Room/Private Bath Package: $2485
Corporate No-Housing Package: $1780

*Student Housing is default double occupancy. Please enquire about availability and fees to upgrade to a private room.

NOTE: We cannot guarantee housing will be on campus

Virtual Participation: Includes access to the oral sessions via Zoom, the digital poster gallery, the Slack discussion workspace, and the Leading Strand video archive. If you are submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation, please plan to attend the meeting in-person.

Virtual Fees:

Academic Virtual Package: $370

Grad Student Virtual Package: $230

Corporate Virtual Package: $550

Late Fee (Registrations submitted after 5:00 p.m. ET on August 6, 2026)

Late Academic Virtual Package: $470
Late Student Virtual Package: $330
Late Corporate Virtual Package: $650