Technical Seminars on Exosomes & Microvesicles and Genome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9

Two Technical Seminars, Lunch included

Where: TMC Commons Bldg., Da Vinci Room
When: Wednesday, Sept 17th
Speaker: Dr. Travis Antes, Director of Product Development for System Biosciences (SBI)

Exosomes & Microvesicles Seminar from 11:00 – 12:00 pm
Topics covered:
• What are exosomes?
• Isolation and quantitation
• Monitoring exosome traffic
• Biomarker discovery
• Engineering & programming designer exosomes

Genome Editing with CRISPR/Cas9 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm
Topics covered:
• CRISPR/Cas9 background
• Designing effective gRNAs
• Utilizing SmartNuclease plasmids
• How to use lentivectors and mRNA
• Using HR vectors for knockouts and editing