Meeting: Keystone Symposia on "Precision Genome Engineering" to be held in Big Sky, MT from January 11-16, 2015

该奖项由系统和合成生物学/MCB以及生物技术，生物化学和生物质工程/CBET共同资助，将支持一个突出基因组编辑技术最新进展的研讨会。 这些技术对推进分子生物学的基础研究以及生物技术和合成生物学的应用具有巨大的意义。 会议将基因组编辑领域的科学家与分子和细胞生物学、合成生物学和生物技术领域的从业人员聚集在一起，以（1）加速这些工具在特定应用中的进一步开发。(2)举行社区讨论的想法，方法，问题和解决方案;（3）促进新的多学科项目和合作，以推动现代科学的启动。 研讨会将于2015年1月11日至16日在蒙大拿州的大天空举行。超过75位来自学术界和工业界的杰出科学家和领导人是组委会和演讲者名单的一部分，预计总出席人数约为200人。组织者做出了真正的努力，以确保在人口统计和代表性不足的群体，以及学术界，工业界，政府和非营利组织的参与方面的平衡。研讨会计划包括主题演讲、科学演讲、从摘要中选出的简短演讲、海报会议和两个研讨会，以鼓励初级和高级科学家和工程师之间的沟通。

This award, which is co-funded by Systems and Synthetic Biology/MCB, and Biotechnology, Biochemical and Biomass Engineering/CBET, will support a symposium that highlights the recent advances in genome editing technologies. These technologies have enormous implications for advancing fundamental research in Molecular Biology, and applications in Biotechnology and Synthetic Biology. The meeting brings scientists from the field of genome editing together with practitioners in molecular and cellular biology, synthetic biology and biotechnology to (1) accelerate the further development of these tools for specific applications. (2) hold community discussions about ideas, methods, problems and solutions; (3) foster the initiation of new multidisciplinary projects and collaborations to advance modern science. The Symposium will be held in Big Sky, Montana, January 11-16, 2015. Over 75 prominent scientists and leaders from academia and industry are part of the organizing committee and speaker list, with an overall attendance to be expected of around 200. The organizers have made a genuine effort to ensure balance in terms of demographics and representation from underrepresented group, as well as participation from academia, industry, government and non-profit organizations. The Symposium program includes Keynote addresses, scientific talks, short talks selected from abstracts, poster sessions, andtwo workshops to encourage communications between junior and senior scientists and engineers.