We're here at Yonsei University College of
Medicine running a two day intensive course
called CRISPR Genome Editing:Design and Strategy,
for researchers from all across South Korea
and the wider Asia Pacific Region.
CRISPR Cas is a revolution in the life sciences
and its completely transforming the way the
world works we're very fortunate to see something
like this in our lifetime and CamBioScience
wants to really be a full on part of what's
happening in the CRISPR field.
I'm in charge of Genome editing products and
services.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Korea is the platinum
partner for this CamBioScience CRISPR workshop.
It was a great opportunity to introduce our
products and have nice coonversations with
many users who are studying and will go on
to study genome editing.
It has been great to help participants with
their genome editing and development.
I would say for me and also for the rest of
the field the interesting thing or the exciting
thing with CRISPR is that its very easy to
use so the previous methods that you could
use for generating knockouts, to knock different
genes they required a lot of knowledge in
molecular cloning and for the normal average
PhD student and scientist, this was not really
possible.
CRISPR however provides the ability to very
easily target and make changes in the genome
that we want to do.
Actually CamBioScience was one of the first
companies ever to focus a two day intensive
course on CRISPR technology, because we realised
where this was going to go and now we have
trained more than four hundred scientists
in the use of CRISPR Cas technology, so we
really want to promote a strong solid understanding
of the technology and how to apply effectively
and understand what's actually going on when
you transfect your cells with CRISPR components,
and how are they working, what might you expect
to see when you sequence your DNA at the end
of your experiments and how might you implement
this technology into the healthcare system.
So this is the second time I am running this
CRISPR course with CamBioScience, and I would
say that what I like about this course is
that there are actually people of all different
levels that come to this course, some of them
have designed guide RNA's and done things
with CRISPR earlier, and now they might need
some more expertise and advice, and we can
try to help them and really target their designs
even more, and some are just starting so they
haven't used CRISPR before and then we are
just helping them and showing them these tools
and the methods they can actually use to get
started.
