Silvana Konermann

Silvana Konermann

San Francisco Bay Area
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Specialties: genome engineering, CRISPR, neuroscience

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Experience

  • Arc Institute Graphic

    Arc Institute

    Palo Alto, California, United States

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    Greater San Diego Area

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Education

Publications

  • Structural basis for the RNA-guided ribonuclease activity of CRISPR-Cas13d

    Cell

  • Transcriptome engineering with RNA-targeting Type VI-D CRISPR effectors

    Cell

  • Genome-scale activation screen identifies a lncRNA locus regulating a gene neighbourhood

    Nature

  • Genome-scale CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and transcriptional activation screening

    Nature Protocols

  • C2c2 is a single-component programmable RNA-guided RNA-targeting CRISPR effector

    Science

  • Orthogonal gene knockout and activation with a catalytically active Cas9 nuclease.

    Nature Biotechnology

    Other authors
  • Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems

    Molecular Cell

  • Crystal structure of Cas9 in complex with guide RNA and target DNA

    Cell

  • Genome-wide binding of the CRISPR endonuclease Cas9 in mammalian cells

    Nature Biotechnology

  • DNA targeting specificity of RNA-guided Cas9 nucleases

    Nature Biotechnology

  • Double nicking by RNA-guided CRISPR Cas9 for enhanced genome editing specificity

    Cell

Patents

  • CELL SORTING

    US 20180127745

    The invention provides for use of CRISPR-Cas systems to sort barcoded cells or molecules. Cells or nucleic acid molecules may be sorted from a heterogenous population by targeting a barcode of interest specific for a cell or cell progeny or nucleic acid molecule of interest.

  • DEAD GUIDES FOR CRISPR TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS

    US 20170321214

    The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are…

    The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. In particular the present invention comprehends optimized functional CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems.

  • FUNCTIONAL SCREENING WITH OPTIMIZED FUNCTIONAL CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS

    US 20180057810

    he invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are…

    he invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. In particular the present invention comprehends optimized functional CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems.

  • INDUCIBLE DNA BINDING PROTEINS AND GENOME PERTURBATION TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF

    US 20170166903

    The present invention generally relates to methods and compositions used for the spatial and temporal control of gene expression that may use inducible transcriptional effectors. The invention particularly relates to inducible methods of altering or perturbing expression of a genomic locus of interest in a cell wherein the genomic locus may be contacted with a non-naturally occurring or engineered composition comprising a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binding polypeptide.

  • NOVEL CRISPR ENZYMES AND SYSTEMS

    US 20170321198

    The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered RNA-targeting systems comprising a novel RNA-targeting CRISPR effector protein and at least one targeting nucleic acid component like a guide RNA

  • RECOMBINANT VIRUS AND PREPARATIONS THEREOF

    US 20160068822

    The present invention generally relates to methods and compositions used delivery of gene editing compositions including transcriptional effectors with parvovirus and preferred methods for making same.

  • SYSTEMS, METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR SEQUENCE MANIPULATION WITH OPTIMIZED FUNCTIONAL CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS

    US 20160355797

Honors & Awards

  • Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award

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Languages

  • German

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • French

    Limited working proficiency

  • Italian

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    - Present
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Hanna H Gray Fellow

    - Present
  • Broad Institute

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  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    PhD candidate

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