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The current COVID-19 situation is challenging and difficult for all of us - we hope this virtual conference will allow colleagues to share and discuss their latest research, while under travel and stay-at-home restrictions.

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The sixth Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Genome Engineering: CRISPR Frontiers is going fully virtual and will begin late morning EST on Wednesday August 19 and end late afternoon EST on Friday August 21, 2020. Oral sessions will be confined to later morning and afternoon sessions EST to maximize access by participants from around the world. An outline program will be posted following further discussion with the organizers.

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 and related bacterial defense systems.

This meeting will consist of six oral sessions and a virtual poster session throughout the meeting; In addition to invited speakers, a number of speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.
Session Name

Invited Speakers:

Janice Chen, Mammoth Biosciences
Alberto Ciccia, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Daniel Durocher, Lunenfeld-Tananbaum Research Institute
Asma Hatoum-Aslan, University of Alabama
Patrick Hsu, University of California, Berkeley
Steven Jacobsen, HHMI / University of California, Los Angeles
Martin Jinek, University of Zurich, Switzerland
J. Keith Joung, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Zachary Lippman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
David Liu, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT 
Kira Makarova, National Center for Biotechnology Information / NIH
Karen Maxwell, University of Toronto, Canada
Sylvain Moineau, University of Laval, Canada
Cameron Myhrvold, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Osamu Nureki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Melanie Ott, University of California, San Francisco, Gladstone Institutes
Stanley Qi, Stanford University
Pamela Ronald, University of California, Davis
Daniel Voytas, University of Minnesota
Yanli Wang, Institute of Biophysics, CAS, China
Blake Wiedenheft, Montana State University
Max Wilson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Feng Zhang,The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Abstracts should contain interesting and exciting material and must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers and individual session chairs. The status (talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site 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 #cshlcrispr20. 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 is sponsored by:

Virtual Attendance Package: $285
Graduate Student Attendance Package: $175
Virtual Corporate Package: $360