Talk on CRISPR - 8:30 pm, LT003, 18/01/2018

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Jan 17, 2018, 8:39:42 AM1/17/18

to BioTech Club, IIT Bombay, achyuth reddy, Aditi Sharma, akanksha manghrani, Akanksha Yadav, Aman Virani, Aniket Bhatia, Archit Bhatnagar, Atish Aloor, Chirag Shetty, Devang Thakkar, Dilawar Singh, Faisal Ahmed, gulam sarwar, Hrushikesh Loya, Ivy, Kireeti Akkunuri, Kumar Miskin, mayank...@gmail.com, Mridula Singh, neena....@iitb.ac.in, Nilapratim Sengupta, pranav sankhe, PVN Mallikarjun Reddy, Reebhu Bhattacharyya, Sandesh Kalantre, shashwatshukl, Soham Dibyachintan, Varunesh Goyal

Hi everybody,

First off, a happy new year to you all from the Biobytes group (We know it's late, but hey, only 1/24th of the year's done yet!).

Next, we call you all to the first talk from Biobytes for this year - we take up the crazy technique of CRISPR - the breakthrough of 2015 - this time around.

What's CRISPR, you say? CRISPR, short for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a technique used for genome editing, amongst other applications. It is a method that takes advantage of the bacterial immune system against viruses to create cuts in DNA at specific locations, these locations determined by a user-specified RNA. No longer does one need to call in Zn fingers to cut at any location, or look for Restriction sites in the DNA. And its way more effective! An intro's at https://www.ibiology.org/genetics-and-gene-regulation/crispr-cas9/

Some applications - Genome engineering (X-Men?), RNA editing (Combating HIV?), Gene drive (eradication of Malaria), Large number of Gene knockouts/Activation/Manipulation (Disease Models?), Bio-medicine (Defense against Superbugs?) etc.

How do you get in on the action? Well, get down to LT003 at 8:30 pm tomorrow night - and experience genetic engineering at a new level.

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Hope to see at the next talk!

Best regards,

Shashwat Shukla & Archit Bhatnagar

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Jan 18, 2018, 9:30:21 AM1/18/18

to BioTech Club, IIT Bombay, achyuth reddy, Aditi Sharma, akanksha manghrani, Akanksha Yadav, Aman Virani, Aniket Bhatia, Archit Bhatnagar, Atish Aloor, Chirag Shetty, Devang Thakkar, Dilawar Singh, Faisal Ahmed, gulam sarwar, Hrushikesh Loya, Ivy, Kireeti Akkunuri, Kumar Miskin, mayank...@gmail.com, Mridula Singh, neena....@iitb.ac.in, Nilapratim Sengupta, pranav sankhe, PVN Mallikarjun Reddy, Reebhu Bhattacharyya, Sandesh Kalantre, shashwatshukl, Soham Dibyachintan, Varunesh Goyal

Reminder: Talk on CRISPR starting in Half an Hour in LT003!

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Jan 18, 2018, 2:10:28 PM1/18/18

to BioTech Club, IIT Bombay, achyuth reddy, Aditi Sharma, akanksha manghrani, Akanksha Yadav, Aman Virani, Aniket Bhatia, Archit Bhatnagar, Atish Aloor, Chirag Shetty, Devang Thakkar, Dilawar Singh, Faisal Ahmed, gulam sarwar, Hrushikesh Loya, Ivy, Kireeti Akkunuri, Kumar Miskin, mayank...@gmail.com, Mridula Singh, neena....@iitb.ac.in, Nilapratim Sengupta, pranav sankhe, PVN Mallikarjun Reddy, Reebhu Bhattacharyya, Sandesh Kalantre, shashwatshukl, Soham Dibyachintan, Varunesh Goyal

Thank you all for attending the talk - and for those who couldn't (or those who cannot now stop reading about CRISPR), here is the google drive link on which the slides and the photos of the event are posted: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nt9X-yK_Te2tGOWiH8vJc6yscidHibmJ

Please do have a look.

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