Participating date: April 28, 2022

Schedule:  11:00 AM – 11:25 AM / 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM 

General Description: CRISPR, along with CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins, functions as an adaptive immune system for many prokaryotic organisms. CRISPR-Cas9 allows for sequence-specific targeting, which scientists have exploited in favor of biomedicine, as a way to alter and remove genes and genomic regions altogether in almost all eukaryotic cells. These systems are limited by specific sequences downstream of the target called protospacer adjacent motifs (PAMs). Finding new systems and proteins that recognize new PAM sites will improve the gene-editing efficiency and applications of this technology. The purpose of this research is to discover new and existing CRISPR-Cas systems in Puerto Rican environments, to find novel Cas proteins, and perform structural and functional analyses of these proteins.

Interested Majors

Biology (BIOL)

Microbiology 

Industrial Biotechnology

Level of Education

Undergraduate

Professor/Advisor

Dr. Carlos Ríos Velázquez

Schedule

April 7, 2022

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM

5:00 PM – 5:30 PM 

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