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Spring 2020

● 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
January 29 Xiaoheng Cheng and Amatur Rahman
The Pennsylvania State University
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Flexible Mixture Model Approaches That Accommodate Footprint Size Variability For Robust Detection of Balancing Selection; Representation of K-mer Sets Using Spectrum-preserving String Sets
February 5 David Liberles
Temple University
Hosted by: Yifei Huang, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Gene Duplication and Protein Structure as the First Layers of a Mechanistic Approach to Studying the Evolution of the Genotype-Phenotype Map
February 12 Nicholas Banovich
Tgen Translational Genomics Research Institute
Hosted by: Emily Davenport, Center for Medical Genomics
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Single-cell RNA-sequencing Reveals Profibrotic Roles of Distinct Epithelial and Mesenchymal Lineages in Pulmonary Fibrosis
February 19 Hongyi Xin
Carnegie Mellon University
Hosted by: Mingfu Shao, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Artificial-cell-type-aware Single Cell Clustering and Fake-cell-type Pruning With CITE-seq and Cell Hashing
February 26 Marta Tomaszkiewicz
The Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: Kateryna Makova, Center for Medical Genomics
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Ampliconic Genes on the Great Ape Y Chromosomes: Rapid Evolution of Copy Number But Conservation of Expression Levels
March 4 Adam MacLean
University of Southern California
Hosted by: Shaun Mahony, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Inferring Transcriptional Networks and Stem Cell Dynamics From Single-cell Genomics
March 18 Ayaan Hossain and Nick Keener
The Pennsylvania State University
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Automated Design of Large Toolboxes of Highly Non-Repetitive Parts for Engineering Evolutionary Robust Genetic Systems
March 25 Kristin Passero and Wilfried Guiblet
The Pennsylvania State University
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Leveraging Environment-wide, Longitudinal Data to Discern How Early-life Exposures Affect Child Health and Development; Non-B DNA Loci Effects on Mutation Rates and Selection in the Genome
To be rescheduled David McCandlish
Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory
Hosted by: Yifei Huang, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
No Zoom URL
To be announced
To be rescheduled Iain Mathieson
University of Pennsylvania
Hosted by: Center for Medical Genomics
No Zoom URL
To be announced
To be rescheduled Deb Kelly
The Pennsylvania State University
Hosted by: George Perry
No Zoom URL
To be announced
To be rescheduled Vijay Kumar Pounraja; Kate Stankiewicz
The Pennsylvania State University
No Zoom URL
Using Rare Genetic Variant Background to Understand Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Using the Astrangia poculata Genome as a Model for Understanding Cnidarian Evolution and Symbiosis