Invited by Prof. Song Xue, Prof. Hong Li paid an academic visit to DICP on September 15-16.
Visit of Prof. Hong Li from Florida State University (By Weiwei Liu)
During her stay at DICP, Prof. Li presented a lecture titling “Genome engineering: fighting viruses, designer baby, and cancer research”. In her lecture, Prof. Li gave an in-depth exploration on CRISPR-Cas pathway, and how it is being used in genome engineering. She illustrated the biochemical and structural properties of the genome engineering enzymes in detail and the pitfalls of the current technology based on the CRISPR-Cas machineries. She also introduced the popular technologies on protein structure studies and compared their advantages and disadvantages.
(Text/Yinghui Liu,Xupeng Cao ;Photo/Weiwei Liu)