URTE & JONAS ATTEND THE 5TH EMBL PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE
- urteglibauskaite
- Apr 4
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Urte and Jonas recently attended the 5th EMBL Partnership Conference in Heidelberg from March 31 to April 2, 2025. The event brought together EMBL and its partner institutes to exchange expertise and foster new collaborations in the life sciences. The conference sessions focused on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in health and life sciences, with topics covering genomics, drug discovery, and clinical research, highlighting AI's potential to revolutionize healthcare and scientific research.
Urte participated in the Young Investigators Meeting (YIM), a one-day event that took place on March 31. The meeting provided a platform for PhD students and postdoctoral fellows to network and exchange ideas. During the conference, Urte also presented a poster on her research about a methylation-sensitive CRISPR-Cas9.
Jonas gave a talk on the systematic engineering of guide RNA repeats to optimize Cas12a editing efficiency, exploring the potential of this approach to improve gene editing techniques.
