CID/CiiiD Tuesday seminar 14 June TODAY from 12pm (lunch from 11.45am)

The CID seminar, 12-1pm, will be on an Overview of CRISPR and access to CRISPR at Monash University.  All CiiiD staff and students are welcome to attend. Flyer here with details. Speakers include:

Dr Jun Liu, Research Fellow at MIME:  http://www.monash.edu/mime/research/profiles/liu.html

Ms Jeanette Rientjes from Transgenic Services at the Monash Animal Research Platform

http://www.platformtechnologies.org/transgenic-services-15765/

Dr Heather St John will give an overview of The Monash Institute of Medical Engineering and funding available through their seed funding program

http://www.monash.edu/mime/

Jun, Heather and Jeanette will be available after the seminar to discuss your research in detail. 

Dr Saleela Ruwanpura will be speaking at today's seminar on the Novel role of inflammasomes in the molecular pathogenesis of emphysema.

 The session will be chaired by Dr Maria Liaskos and held at 1pm in Seminar Room 1 of the TRF.

For some preliminary background - there is a good overview of CRISPR at 

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2014/crispr-a-game-changing-genetic-engineering-technique/

If you like podcasts - there is an easy to understand podcast of CRISPR from Radiolab http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/

Lunch will be served at 11:45am in foyer of the TRF building.