The ODIN Presents: Hands On CRISPR Cas9 Genome Engineer in Bacteria

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats(CRISPR) is just a long name to say that Scientist found a protein(Cas9) that can use an RNA guide to make highly specific cuts in DNA. This allows unprecedented abilities to edit and engineer DNA. The reason it is such a great Synthetic Biology tool is the specificity and general applicability. One can target almost any DNA region in almost any organism and the time to do this is an order of magnitude less than before with other genetic engineering techniques. In this class we will teach you about CRISPR, why everyone thinks it is so cool and then we will all replicate one of the first ever experiments performed using CRISPR on bacteria for genome engineering (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748948/).

Class size: 30, please no walk-ins

Instructors 
Josiah Zayner, Ph.D. 
Brad Hakes 
Micah Zayner