We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Genome Editing: All Things Considered  which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday November 9, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday, and depart on Friday, November 13, 2026.

The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Genome Editing. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Major Topics:

1. New developments in genome editing: methods and tools

2. Mechanistic studies related to genome editing

3. High-throughput screening & target discovery

4. Repurposing of genome editing

5. Genome editing in animals and plants

6. Therapeutic application

7. Genome writing and synthetic biology

8. All things considered

Invited Speakers:

Sangsu Bae, Seoul National University

Chase Beisel, Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering

Jens Boch, Leibniz University Hannover

Sidi Chen, Yale School of Medicine

Ailong Ke, Yale School of Medicine

Hyongbum Henry Kim, Department of Pharmacology

Hong Li, Van Andel Institute Grand Rapids

Randall Platt, ETH Zürich

Cian Schmitt-Ulms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Virginijus Šikšnys, Vilnius University

Samuel Sternberg, Columbia University

Haoyi Wang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Wensheng Wei, Peking University

And more...

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers. 

Fellowship: 
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit  Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in November, 2026.