# Center for Genome Editing and Recording

> **NIH NIH RM1** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · 2020 · $19,236

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
UC Berkeley and the Doudna Lab are incredibly fortunate this year to organize the annual CEGS conference.
The event falls at a time when we will be commemorating the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human
Genome Project and the publication of the NHGRI's new strategic plan. We think that this is an opportunity to
strengthen the Program and NHGRI's global outreach and impact as we embark on a new era of science and
technology. Indeed, as new fields emerge, the CEGS Program, and its researchers, will continue to evolve and
create greater impact in the world.
Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic brought great uncertainty among scientists and people across the
world. While countries locked down, we saw many of our colleagues and fellow researchers starting
collaborating and fiercely contributing to the growing issue. With no fewer than 400 participants this year, the
CEGS conference is consequently an opportunity for true engagement at such a pivotal and momentous time.
We do not want this conference to be a sequence of scientific reports and presentations. We want this
conference to reflect the new NHGRI's strategic vision. We want to challenge our audience and engage them
into conversations around ethics, technology, and diversity. Conversations that set a precedent not only for our
research scope but for how we choose to engage with science at a societal level. There has never been a
better time to encourage and facilitate these conversations. We have the great honor of doing so with some of
the greatest minds in science and we want to take full advantage of this and provide all the necessary tools to
create collaboration opportunities and set the stage for considerable scientific progress. In fact, it has been
proven that projects centered in collaboration among researchers from different institutions are more frequently
cited and novel.
We think that the shelter-in-place and the mandate to make the CEGS conference “go virtual” gives us an
opportunity to envision a different kind of conference — a conference that zeroes in on what motivates
scientists to go to conferences in the first place: to share ideas, to forge collaborations, and to make
connections. New formats and tools are now available so that researchers from all sorts of backgrounds and at
a variety of career stages can interact, connect, and network. Given this, we can provide a space for
conversation and innovation that would not otherwise be possible or likely in general assembly. This is why we
favor a more reliable infrastructure accessible to all with a networking friendly user interface that is easy to
navigate. We truly believe that the perceived “limitations” of a virtual meeting can actually put us at a great
advantage. We are going to enable the technology afforded to us to realize these advantages. Our goal is to
create real collaboration across disciplines, specialties, and levels of leadership. The event will be planned and
executed with this ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10236145
- **Project number:** 3RM1HG009490-04S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
- **Principal Investigator:** JENNIFER A DOUDNA
- **Activity code:** RM1 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $19,236
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2020-09-01 → 2021-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10236145

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10236145, Center for Genome Editing and Recording (3RM1HG009490-04S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10236145. Licensed CC0.

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