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-Cas and related bacterial defense systems.

This conference will bring together leaders and trainees from the cutting edge of CRISPR technologies and their application to genome editing and beyond. Academic, clinical, and industrial researchers are invited to share their recent discoveries to progress the field in CRISPR science and engineering.