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Fall 2019

● 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 7
12:00PM
501 Wartik Lab
Marius van den Beek
Institut Curie
Hosted by: Anton Nekrutenko
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Somatic Transposition in the Aging Fly Gut and Developing Galaxy for the Lab
August 28 Xiaojun Lance Lian
The Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: Ross Hardison
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RNA-Seq Analysis of Cardiac Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
August 30
12:00PM
Taras K. Oleksyk
Oakland University
Hosted by: Center for Medical Genomics
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Genomics, Conservation, and Island Biogeography in the Caribbean
September 4 Stephen Schaeffer
The Pennsylvania State University
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The Opposing Forces of Selection and Gene Conversion Acting on Chromosomal Rearrangements in Drosophila pseudoobscura
September 11 Keith Cheng
The Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: Ross Hardison
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From Human Questions to Model Systems: Functional Genomics and Computational Phenomics
September 18 Matthew Weirauch
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Hosted by: Ross Hardison, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Discovery of Altered Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Human Disease
September 25 Lila Reiber and Ana Gonzalez
The Pennsylvania State University
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Comparison of 3D Genome Structures Between Cell Types and Sisterhood in coral genomics; the case of the Orbicella species complex
October 3
3:30PM
100 Life Sciences, Berg Auditorium
Scott Edwards
Harvard University
Hosted by: Departent of Biology, Marker Lecture
No Zoom URL
Convergent Regulatory Evolution and Loss of Flight in Paleognathous Birds
October 4
3:30PM
100 Life Sciences, Berg Auditorium
Scott Edwards
Harvard University
Hosted by: Department of Biology, Marker Lecture
No Zoom URL
Bird Evolution: from dinosaurs to DNA
October 9 Suzanne Gonzalez
Penn State College of Medicine
Hosted by: Center for Medical Genomics
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Breaking Bipolar: Convergence of Mitochondrial, Circadian, and Ion Channel Dysfunction
October 16 Kateryna Makova
The Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: Center for Medical Genomics
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The Germline Bottleneck, Maternal Age, and Selection Modulate the Transmission Dynamics of Mitochondrial DNA in Human Pedigrees
October 23
1:00PM
Camden Jansen
University of California, Irvine
Hosted by: Ross Hardison
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Building Gene Regulatory Networks using Self-Organizing Maps
October 23 Bradley Langhorst
New England BioLabs
Hosted by: Anton Nekrutenko
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Extracting Information from Challenging FFPE and Low-Input Samples
October 30 Tarik Salameh and Sofia Roitman
The Pennsylvania State University
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Chromatin Loop Detection Via Supervised Learning in Genome-wide Contact Data and Surviving marginalized reefs; assessing the implications of the microbiome on coral physiology and survivorship
November 6 Bryan Howie
Adaptive Biotechnologies
Hosted by: George Perry
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Profiling Adaptive Immunity: Translating Lymphocyte Repertoires into Medical Insights
November 13 Irina Elcheva
Penn State College of Medicine
Hosted by: Center for Medical Genomics
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Stem Cell Models for Studying Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis
November 20 Divyanshi Srivastava and Arun Srinivasan
The Pennsylvania State University
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Characterizing the Sequence and Prior Chromatin Determinants of TF Binding and The Compostional Knockoff Filter for Microbiome Data
December 4 Han Mei
The Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: Center for Medical Genomics
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Tracking Plasmid Heteroplasmy in Experimental Evolution
December 11 Alex Harris and Hillary Koch
The Pennsylvania State University
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A likelihood approach for uncovering selective sweep signatures from haplotype data and High dimensional association detection in hematopoietic cell populations