monday 10 March
12:00-12:45
Registration, Lunch & Posters
12:45-13:00
Presidential Welcome Address & Welcome of Organizer
​Frank Buchholz, Technical University Dresden & Zoltan Ivics, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig
13:00-14:25
Session 1: CRISPR Screens​
Chair: Boris Fehse, University of Hamburg
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13:00-13:20 Michael Boutros, Heidelberg University
INV01:
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13:20-13:40 John Fielden, ETH Zürich
INV02: Comprehensive Interrogation of Synthetic Lethality in the Human DNA Damage Response
13:40-13:55 OR01: ​
13:55-14:10 OR02:​
14:10-14:25 OR03:
14:25-14:45
Comfort Break
14:45-16:10
Session 2: Delivery
​Chair: Sandy Tretbar, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig
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14:45-15:05 Achim Aigner, University of Leipzig
INV03: Polymeric nanoparticles for RNA delivery: genome editing and beyond
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15:05-15:25 Ansgar Santel, Pantherna, Hennigsdorf
INV04: Beyond the Liver: Lipidnanoparticles (LNP) for Precise mRNA Delivery
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15:25-15:45 Hildegard Büning, Hannover Medical School
INV05​
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15:45-16:00 OR04​
16:00-16:15 OR05
16:15-16:45
Coffee Break
16:45-18:10
Session 3: Clinics
​Chair: Ulrike Köhl, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig
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16:45-17:05 Jürgen Foell, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg
INV06:
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17:05-17:25 Axel Schambach, Hannover Medical School
INV07:
17:25-17:40 OR06​
17:40-17:55 OR07​
17:55-18:10 OR08
18:30-20:00
Guided Tour of DHMD
20:00
Dinner at Pulverturm an der Frauenkirche
An der Frauenkirche 12,
01067 Dresden
TueSDAY 11 March
09:00-09:15
Registration & Welcome with coffee
09:15-09:50
Keynote
​Chair: Toni Cathomen, University of Freiburg
9:15-9:50 Kathleen Collins, Berkeley University
INV08: ​​​
09:50-11:10
Session 4: Genome editing technologies
​Chair: Zoltan Ivics, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig
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09:50-10:10 Toni Cathomen, University of Freiburg
INV09: Safer Genome Editing: Innovations in Off-Target Management
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10:10-10:30 Felix Lansing, Seamless Therapeutics, Dresden
INV10: ​Programmable recombinases to treat genetic diseases
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10:30-10:50 Zoltan Ivics, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Leipzig
INV11: ​Advances in Sleeping Beauty transposon engineering of therapeutic cells
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10:50-11:10 Marc Güell, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
INV12: ​Levering bioprospecting and generative AI to create new gene writers
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11:10-11:25 OR09
11:25-12:00
Coffee break & posters
12:00-13:30
Session 5: Ethics
​​Chair: Frank Buchholz, Technical University Dresden
Moderator: Nadia Princ, University of Heidelberg
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12:20-12:40 Karla Alex, University of Heidelberg
INV13: The ethics of human genome editing
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12:40-13:00 Klaus Tanner, University of Heidelberg
INV14:
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13:00–13:30 Panel discussion
13:30
Lunch and Posters