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SUMMARY:EPFL BioEngineering Talks
DTSTART:20261130T121500
DTEND:20261130T134500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Invited Speaker and Student Speaker\nWeekly BioEngineering Tal
 ks ( Lunch Provided)\n\nINVITED SPEAKER:\n\nA full-stack viral toolkit for
  systems neuroscience\nProf. Lief Fenno\, University of Texas at Austin\
 nHost: Prof. Yoon Seok Kim\n\nAbstract:\n Understanding and manipulating
  neural circuits requires technologies enabling access to specific cells\,
  manipulation of genome structure\, and delivery of increasingly complex g
 enetic programs. I will describe viral technologies developed by my group 
 that address each of these challenges. These include INTRSECT\, a Boolean 
 viral targeting strategy for cell-type- and circuit-specific access\; VESP
 A\, a novel split-AAV platform that enables efficient reassembly and expre
 ssion of genetic payloads too large for a single AAV\; and CRISPR/Cas9-bas
 ed strategies for precise\, cell-type- and circuit-specific gene knockdown
 . Together\, these tools form an integrated viral toolkit for programmable
  access to and manipulation of neural circuits across multiple levels of b
 iological complexity.\n\nBio:\nDr. Lief Fenno is a physician-scientist at 
 The University of Texas at Austin and Dell Medical School. His research in
 tegrates systems neuroscience\, synthetic biology\, and bioengineering to 
 develop genetic\, viral\, and neuromodulation technologies for programmabl
 e control of neural circuits in vivo. His laboratory develops molecular an
 d viral platforms for selectively accessing and manipulating defined neura
 l populations\, alongside approaches for neural stimulation and emerging t
 herapeutic applications. His work spans fundamental circuit neuroscience\,
  neurotechnology\, and the translation of biological tools to treatment of
  brain disorders. Dr. Fenno is also a board-certified addiction psychiatri
 st\, Chair of the American Psychiatric Association Council on Addiction Ps
 ychiatry\, and is active in commercial scientific translation and biotechn
 ology innovation.\n\nSTUDENT SPEAKER:\n\nAn inter-organ dimethylglycine sh
 uttle coordinates liver-kidney mitochondrial folate metabolism\nAdrien Fau
 re\, Schoonjans Lab\n\n\n-------------------------------------------------
 ------------------------\n\nBioEngineering Talks mandatory EDBB Seminar At
 tendance (1st-Year PhD Students)\n\n	 Attendance sheet to print HERE \n
 \nThe BioEngineering Student Seminar Series is an official course for whi
 ch students can register and earn credits.\n \n\n	Register HERE\n	Attend
 ance sheet to print HERE\n\nGeneral information:\nIn-person attendance is
  preferred to support your fellow students. Zoom is mainly for students on
  remote campuses\; please notify Fiorella Ghisays in advance and join us
 ing your full name.\nIf attending in person\, have your sheet signed after
  the talk and keep the original\, as no copy is retained.\n 
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717 https://epfl.zoom.u
 s/j/68746410793
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