Spring 2023

● 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 11	Manuel Llinás PSU Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) Zoom URL	Harnessing metabolomics to subvert malaria parasites
January 18	Ross Hardison PSU Zoom URL	My half-century of studying gene regulation
To be rescheduled	Giulio Formenti Rockefeller University Hosted by: Anton Nekrutenko No Zoom URL	High-quality reference genomes and pangenomes for a new era in biology
February 1	Anna Calderon ; Ana Leon Apodaca PSU Hosted by: PJ Perry Zoom URL	Comparing runs of homozygosity in Setophaga warblers ; Genomic consequences of isolation and inbreeding in an island dingo population
February 8	Santhosh Girirajan PSU Graduate School Hosted by: Michael Verderame Zoom URL	Public Forum for Candidates for the Chair of BGEN
To be rescheduled	Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares PSU College of Medicine Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) No Zoom URL	Methods for the detection of human diseases
February 22	Stefan Canzar PSU Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) Zoom URL	Of buried transcripts and blurred cell types: transcriptomes under the magnifying lens
March 1	Xiang Zhu PSU Dept. of Statistics Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) Zoom URL	Applying an enhancer lens to human disease genetics
March 15	Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares PSU College of Medicine Hosted by: Kateryna Makova Zoom URL	Methods for the detection of human diseases
March 22	Sudha Veturi PSU Biobehavioral Health Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) Zoom URL	Data driven approach to understand pleiotropy between the human brain (neuroimaging) and complex human diseases
To be rescheduled	Amatur Rahman PSU Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) No Zoom URL
April 5	Raquel Assis Florida Atlantic Univ Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) Zoom URL	Statistical methods for learning about trait evolution
April 6 12:00PM	Michael DeGiorgio Florida Atlantic Univ Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) Zoom URL	Feature generation strategies for improving predictive models of adaptation
April 12	Jennifer Wagner PSU Hosted by: PJ Perry Zoom URL	Algorithmic Fairness in the Roberts Court Era
April 18 1:00PM Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library	Karen Vasquez (keynote); Phil Bevilacqua, Sally Assmann, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares, Kristin Eckert U of Texas; PSU Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics (contact: Kateryna Makova) No Zoom URL	Structured Nucleic Acids Day: Novel Mechanisms of Genetic Instability in Cancer (... and more)
April 19	Troy LaPolice ; Lexi Morrissey PSU Hosted by: PJ Perry Zoom URL	Agent based spatial model of European Neolithic farming expansion reveals high levels of assortative mating and limited cultural transmission ; Allo: an easily integrable multi-mapped read rescue strategy for repetitive element inclusive ChIP-seq analysis pipelines
April 26	Stéphanie Bedhomme French National Centre for Scientific Research Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics (contact: Kateryna Makova) Zoom URL	Deciphering the horizontal traffic rules of aminoglycoside resistance genes
May 10	Amatur Rahman PSU Hosted by: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev) Zoom URL	Disk compression algorithms for de Bruijn graphs