Fall 2018

● The Weekly Wednesday Wartik Genomics Lecture Series (WWWGLS) is held in 501 Wartik Lab (large commons area) on Wednesdays at 3 pm, unless noted otherwise.
● Coffee, tea, and snacks are usually served after the presentation.
● PSU faculty can nominate speakers via this form
● PSU affiliates can sign up to receive seminar announcements using L-WWWGLS@lists.psu.edu.

Date	Presenter(s)	Topic
August 22	Nikolay V. Dokholyan Penn State College of Medicine Hosted by: The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	Multiscale Modeling and Design of Biological Molecules
August 29	Debmalya Nandy and Lucilla Pizzo Penn State University Zoom URL	Debmalya: Covariate Information Number for Feature Screening in Ultrahigh-Dimensional Supervised Learning; Lucilla: 16p12.1 Deletion as a Model for the Complex Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disease
September 5	Bob Harris Penn State University Zoom URL	1) Noise Cancelling Repeat Finder 2) Sabutan
September 12	Angelika Heissl Johannes Kepler University Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL	Poly-A Tracts and Their Influence on Human Meiotic Recombination
September 19	Saurabh Sinha University of Illinois Hosted by: The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	Statistical and Biophysics-inspired Methods for Discovery of Gene Regulatory Mechanisms
September 26	Xueyuan Jiang and Mehreen Mughal Penn State University Zoom URL	Xueyuan: Functional evolution of duplicate genes in animals and plants; Mehreen: Localizing and Classifying Adaptive Targets with Trend Filtered Regression
October 3	Aaron Quinlan University of Utah Hosted by: Santhosh Girirajan Zoom URL	Constrained Coding Regions and Patterns of Germline Mutation Revealed by Large, Multi-Generational Human Pedigrees
October 10	Arslan Zaidi Penn State University Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL	Investigating Mito-nuclear Interactions in Admixed Human Populations
October 17	Suming Huang Penn State College of Medicine Hosted by: Ross Hardison Zoom URL	Chromatin Boundary and lncRNA Coordinate to Control HSC Function and Leukemogenesis
October 24	Aakrosh Ratan University of Virginia Hosted by: The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	Driver Genes and Gene Sets in Cancer
October 31	Bo Zhang and Jordan Hughey Penn State University Zoom URL	De Novo Assembly of Zebrafish Genome AND Identifying Target Genes for Regulatory Variants and Fine Mapping Causal Variants of Smoking and Drinking Addiction Related Traits
November 7	Vaishali Katju Texas A&M University Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL	Spontaneous Mutation through the Lens of Experimental Evolution: Genomic Insights from a Simple Worm
November 14	Molly Hall Penn State University Zoom URL	TBA
November 28	Divyanshi Srivastava and Ana Kenney Penn State University Zoom URL	Divyanshi: Characterizing the Sequence and Chromatin Determinants of Transcription Factor Binding with Deep Neural Networks Ana: Harnessing Longitudinal Data to Derive a New Genetic Risk Score for Childhood Obesity
December 12 2:00PM	Marta Tomaszkiewicz Penn State University Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL	Amplicomics of Male-specific Genes in 100 Men Across Major Y Chromosome Haplogroups