Cellectis to present at the FASEB Summer Research Conference on Genome Engineering

Paris, June 2, 2010 –Cellectis (Alternext: ALCLS), the French genome engineering specialist, announces today that Frédéric Pâques, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer, Julianne Smith, PhD, head of the Meganuclease Recombination System group at Cellectis genome surgery, and Feng Zhang, PhD, Research Director at Cellectis plant sciences have been invited to present Cellectis’ results on meganucleases and genome surgery at the

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Targeted approaches have emerged today as an alternative to current random insertion strategies for gene therapy. Meganucleases, the most specific endonucleases, represent ideal tools for targeted genome editing, or genome surgery. They can induce up to 20% of gene insertion into chosen human genes.  

Dr Pâques will discuss “Engineering Meganucleases for Genome Engineering Purposes” on June 7, 2010, at 7:00AM, during an oral session on Engineering Customized Nucleases, while Dr Smith will present “Meganucleases for Genome Surgery” on June 8, 2010, at 8:45AM, during an oral session on Nuclease-Enhanced Genome Engineering in Mammalian Cells. Dr Zhang will talk about “Modification of Plant Genomes using Engineered Meganucleases” on June 8, 2010, at 10:00AM, during an oral session on Nuclease-Enhanced Genome Engineering in Model Organisms and Plants.