Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, January 23, 2026
Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D.
Scientific Director, Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine; Scientific Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology (Allen-CZI-UW); Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Molecular Recording of Mammalian Development
The Richard M. Furlaud Distinguished Lecture
Recommended Readings:
Askary, Amjad, et al. “The lives of cells, recorded.” Nature Reviews Genetics 26.3 (2025): 203-222.
Choi, Junhong, et al. “A molecular proximity sensor based on an engineered, dual-component guide RNA.” eLife 13 (2025): RP98110.
Liao, Hanna, Junhong Choi, and Jay Shendure. “Molecular recording using DNA Typewriter.” Nature Protocols 19.10 (2024): 2833-2862.
Chen, Wei, et al. “Symbolic recording of signalling and cis-regulatory element activity to DNA.” Nature 632.8027 (2024): 1073-1081.
Nathans, Jenny F., et al. “Genetic tools for cell lineage tracing and profiling developmental trajectories in the skin.” Journal of Investigative Dermatology 144.5 (2024): 936-949.