Session 52: Personal Genetics
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Session 52: Personal Genetics
Tuesday 23rd February, 2021. 3PM EST/ 8PM GMT / 9PM CET /Moderators: Dr. Helen O'Neill and Dr. Sissy Wamaitha
"CRISPR Genome Editing. How, What and Why?"
Dr. Helen O'Neill
“Frequent Loss-of-Heterozygosity in CRISPR-Cas9-edited Early Human Embryos”
Dr. Gregorio Alanis-Lobato"CRISPR, IVG, ART...OMG! Untangling the Ethics of Radical Innovations in Assisted Reproduction"
Dr. John Appleby
DR. HELEN O'NEILL
DR. GREGORIO ALANIS-LOBATO
Gregorio is now a Principal Computational Biologist at Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma, where he's applying his expertise in multiomics data integration and network biology to support the drug target discovery pipelines in the Central Nervous System and Research Beyond Borders departments.
DR. JOHN APPLEBY
John works on theoretical and applied issues in moral and political philosophy. The majority of his work is applied to issues (e.g. ethics, policy and regulation) in science and medicine - especially reproduction (e.g. the ethics of the donation of reproductive materials). He is currently conducting research on a number of topics in the field of reproduction and reproductive donation, including: gamete and embryo donation; mitochondrial replacement techniques / mitochondrial donation (aka 'three person IVF'); in-vitro derived gametes; ectogenesis and gene editing technologies (e.g. CRISPR). His work has also been featured in the media, such as on the BBC, Times Radio, the Financial Times, and others.
John has published two co-edited volumes on reproductive donation with Cambridge University Press, titled Reproductive Donation: Practice, Policy and Bioethics (2012) and Regulating Reproductive Donation (2016). For an up to date list of all of John’s projects and publications please visit his university webpage: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fhm/about-us/people/john-appleby
DR. SISSY WAMAITHA
Dr. Wamaitha gained a BSc (Hons) degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Manchester, UK, and then carried out her PhD research with Dr. Kathy Niakan in the Human Embryo and Stem Cell Laboratory at The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK (formerly the National Institute for Medical Research). There, she investigated the effects of growth factor signaling during human embryonic development and on embryonic stem cells, and contributed to the first study utilizing CRISPR genome editing to investigate gene function in human embryos.
Dr. Wamaitha is currently pursuing postdoctoral research in Dr. Amander Clark’s lab at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. Her research explores how human germline cells are specified in the early embryo and subsequently form gametes, with the aim of translating these findings to infertility-related therapies.