A feast of top quality talks, deliberations on CRISPRtx accessibility, poster sessions and above all a lot of fun concludes in Goa Director BITS, Pilani - K.K. Birla Goa Campus. Thank you everyone at CSIR-IGIB CSIR, India who helped make this happen! Xue Sherry Gao Ben Kleinstiver Randall Platt

Dr. Debojyoti Chakraborty from CSIR-IGIB gave a talk on "Navigating the translational route of CRISPR therapies in India" making us understand the need of frugal solutions for a developing nation, FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa #FGE23Goa #FGE2023Goa

Dr. Keiji Nishida presented his work titled "Basic editing tools with new features" FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa CSIR-IGIB #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

Dr Indumathi Mariappan from LVPEI presented her incredible work in her talk titled "CRISPR tools to generate iPSC and zebrafish models to study eye diseases" FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa CSIR-IGIB #FGE23Goa #FGE2023Goa

Dr. ajit chande from IISER Bhopal presented his work titled "Chemical genetics approach identifies stimulators of CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene editing" FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa CSIR-IGIB #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

Dr. CL • Le Cong from Stanford University was our virtual presenter, gave a talk titled "Metagenomic mining and engineering of single-strand recombinase for cleavage-free knock-in of long sequences in human and mouse cells" FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa CSIR-IGIB #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

Dr. Jun-Jie Gogo Liu gave a talk on "Development of novel gene-editing tools inspired by the "RNA world" and was our virtual presenter of the day FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa CSIR-IGIB #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

Dr. Jia Chen from ShanghaiTech University was another virtual presenter of the day, who gave a talk on "Base editing of the HBG promoter induced potent fetal hemoglobin with no detectable off-target mutations in human HSCs" FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa CSIR-IGIB #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

The day ended with a panel discussion on "Genome editing therapies: Availability, accessibility and the way forward" FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa CSIR-IGIB #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

A gala dinner was the absolute unofficial end to the event FGE2023 IGIB bits pilani goa CSIR-IGIB #FGE2023Goa #FGE23Goa

Thank you for participating and highlighting the need for a therapy that can serve sickle cell warriors in India. The panel discussion moderated by Barbara Cheifet, chief editor Nature Biotechnology on the equity and accessibility of CRISPR therapies remains a highlight of FGE2023 IGIB

Dr Ajit Chande, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biological Sciences IISER Bhopal delivered a talk titled 'Chemical Genetics Approach Identifies Stimulators of CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing' at the FGE 2023 conference organized by CSIR-IGIB & BITS-Pilani Goa from Nov 14-16, 2023