Prof Chase Beisel
About
Chase Beisel received his bachelors and doctoral degrees in chemical engineering, although he always maintained an interest in engineering biomolecules and biological systems. His doctoral work at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California, USA) with Dr. Christina Smolke introduced him to the concept of RNA engineering. He then completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland, USA) under the direction of Dr. Gisela Storz exploring the natural properties of RNA regulators. He then began his faculty position in the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, North Carolina, USA) in 2011 pursuing RNA-guided immune systems called CRISPR-Cas systems. He was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure shortly before transitioning to the HIRI in 2018, where he focuses on applying RNA engineering to better understand, diagnose, and treat infectious disease.
His accomplishments have garnered consistent recognition, starting with graduate fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Department of Defense and a postdoctoral fellowship through the Life Science Research Foundation. Later, his independent research program has also been recognized with the CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Biotechnology & Bioengineering Daniel I.C. Wang Young Investigator Award, and the Bay Area Lyme Foundation Emerging Leader Award.
2024
MprF-mediated immune evasion is necessary for Lactiplantibacillus plantarum resilience in the Drosophila gut during inflammation
Arias-Rojas A, Arifah AQ, Angelidou G, Alshaar B, Schombel U, Forest E, Frahm D, Brinkmann V, Paczia N, Beisel CL, Gisch N, Iatsenko I (2024)
PLOS Pathogens 20 (8): e1012462DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1012462
Phage anti-CRISPR control by an RNA- and DNA-binding helix-turn-helix protein
Birkholz N, Kamata K, Feussner M, Wilkinson ME, Cuba Samaniego C, Migur A, Kimanius D, Ceelen M, Went SC, Usher B, …, Jackson SA, Fineran PC (2024)
Nature 631 (8021): 670-677DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07644-1
TracrRNA reprogramming enables direct PAM-independent detection of RNA with diverse DNA-targeting Cas12 nucleases
Jiao C, Peeck NL, Yu J, Ghaem Maghami M, Kono S, Collias D, Martinez Diaz SL, Larose R, Beisel CL (2024)
Nature Communications 15 (1): 5909DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50243-x
A cell-free transcription-translation pipeline for recreating methylation patterns boosts DNA transformation in bacteria
Vento JM, Durmusoglu D, Li T, Patinios C, Sullivan S, Ttofali F, van Schaik J, Yu Y, Wang Y, Barquist L, Crook N, Beisel CL (2024)
Molecular Cell (Online ahead of print)DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2024.06.003
Type IV-A3 CRISPR-Cas systems drive inter-plasmid conflicts by acquiring spacers in trans
Benz F, Camara-Wilpert S, Russel J, Wandera KG, Cepaite R, Ares-Arroyo M, Gomes-Filho JV, Englert F, Kuehn JA, Gloor S, …, Sørensen SJ, Pinilla-Redondo R (2024)
Cell Host & Microbe (Online ahead of print)DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.04.016
Expanding the flexibility of base editing for high-throughput genetic screens in bacteria
Gawlitt S, Collins SP, Yu Y, Blackman SA, Barquist L, Beisel CL (2024)
Nucleic Acids Research (Online ahead of print)DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkae174
CRISPR-based screening of small RNA modulators of bile susceptibility in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Prezza G, Liao C, Reichardt S, Beisel CL, Westermann AJ (2024)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (6): 1096DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2311323121
A Hitchhiker's guide to CRISPR editing tools in bacteria : CRISPR can help unlock the bacterial world, but technical and regulatory barriers persist
Krink N, Nikel PI, Beisel CL (2024)
EMBO Reports 25 (4): 1694-1699DOI: 10.1038/s44319-024-00086-w
An adapted method for Cas9-mediated editing reveals the species-specific role of β-glucoside utilization driving competition between Klebsiella species
Almási ÉdH, Knischewski N, Osbelt L, Muthukumarasamy U, El Mouali Y, Vialetto E, Beisel CL, Strowig T (2024)
Journal of Bacteriology 206 (3): e0031723DOI: 10.1128/jb.00317-23
Improved prediction of bacterial CRISPRi guide efficiency from depletion screens through mixed-effect machine learning and data integration
Yu Y, Gawlitt S, de Andrade E Sousa LB, Merdivan E, Piraud M, Beisel CL, Barquist L (2024)
Genome Biology 25 (1): 13DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-03153-y
2023
Interrogating two extensively self-targeting Type I CRISPR-Cas systems in Xanthomonas albilineans reveals distinct anti-CRISPR proteins that block DNA degradation
Wimmer F, Englert F, Wandera KG, Alkhnbashi OS, Collins SP, Backofen R, Beisel CL (2023)
Nucleic Acids Research 52 (2): 769-783DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad1097
Shortened CRISPR-Cas9 arrays enable multiplexed gene targeting in bacteria from a smaller DNA footprint
Gawlitt S, Liao C, Achmedov T, Beisel CL (2023)
RNA Biology 20 (1): 666-680DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2023.2247247
For the CRISPR Fan(zor)atics: RNA-guided DNA endonucleases discovered in eukaryotes
Patinios C, Beisel CL (2023)
Molecular Cell 83 (17): 3046-3048DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2023.08.019
A predicted CRISPR-mediated symbiosis between uncultivated archaea
Esser SP, Rahlff J, Zhao W, Predl M, Plewka J, Sures K, Wimmer F, Lee J, Adam PS, McGonigle J, …, Zhang Y, Probst AJ (2023)
Nature Microbiology 8 (9): 1619-1633DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01439-2
Optimized metrics for orthogonal combinatorial CRISPR screens
Cetin R, Wegner M, Luwisch L, Saud S, Achmedov T, Süsser S, Vera-Guapi A, Müller K, Matthess Y, Quandt E, …, Beisel CL, Kaulich M (2023)
Scientific Reports 13 (1): 7405DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-34597-8
Systematically attenuating DNA targeting enables CRISPR-driven editing in bacteria
Collias D, Vialetto E, Yu J, Co K, Almási ÉDH, Rüttiger AS, Achmedov T, Strowig T, Beisel CL (2023)
Nature Communications 14 (1): 680DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36283-9
RNA targeting unleashes indiscriminate nuclease activity of CRISPR-Cas12a2
Bravo JPK, Hallmark T, Naegle B, Beisel CL, Jackson RN, Taylor DW (2023)
Nature 613 (7944): 582-587DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05560-w
Cas12a2 elicits abortive infection through RNA-triggered destruction of dsDNA
Dmytrenko O, Neumann GC, Hallmark T, Keiser DJ, Crowley VM, Vialetto E, Mougiakos I, Wandera KG, Domgaard H, Weber J, …, Jackson RN, Beisel CL (2023)
Nature 613 (7944): 588-594DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05559-3
RNA recording in single bacterial cells using reprogrammed tracrRNAs
Jiao C, Reckstadt C, König F, Homberger C, Yu J, Vogel J, Westermann AJ, Sharma CM, Beisel CL (2023)
Nature Biotechnology 41 (8): 1107-1116DOI: 10.1038/s41587-022-01604-8