Friday Lecture Series
Friday, October 9th, 2015
3:45 p.m., Caspary Auditorium
Luciano Marraffini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Head,
Laboratory of Bacteriology,
The Rockefeller University
CRISPR-Cas: The Adaptive Immune System of Prokaryotes
Recommended Readings
Empirical Articles
Goldberg, G. W., Jiang, W., Bikard, D., & Marraffini, L. A. (2014). Conditional tolerance of temperate phages via transcription-dependent CRISPR-Cas targeting. Nature, 514(7524), 633-637. doi:10.1038/nature13637.
Heler, R., Samai, P., Modell, J. W., Weiner, C., Goldberg, G. W., Bikard, D., & Marraffini, L. A. (2015). Cas9 specifies functional viral targets during CRISPR-Cas adaptation. Nature, 19(7542), 199-202. doi:10.1038/nature14245.
Jiang, W., Maniv, I., Arain, F., Wang, Y., Levin, B. R., & Marraffini, L. A. (2012). Dealing with the evolutionary downside of CRISPR immunity: bacteria and beneficial plasmids. PLoS Genetics, 9(9), e1003844-e1003844. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003844.
Review Papers
Barrangou, R., & Marraffini, L. A. (2014). CRISPR-Cas systems: prokaryotes upgrade to adaptive immunity. Molecular Cell, 54(2), 234-244. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2014.03.011.
Hatoum-Aslan, A., & Marraffini, L. A. (2014). Impact of CRISPR immunity on the emergence and virulence of bacterial pathogens. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 17, 82-90. doi:10.1016/j.mib.2013.12.001
