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Spring 2024

● 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 10 [many]
Host: (contact: Makova)
Zoom URL
Remembering Yifei Huang
January 17
January 24
January 31
February 7
February 14 Boris Rebolledo Jaramillo
Univ. del Desarrollo
Host: CMG (contact: Makova)
Zoom URL
The DECIPHERD initiative for rare undiagnosed diseases in Chile (and related projects)
February 21 Parul Johri
UNC Chapel Hill
Host: Christian Huber
Zoom URL
The role of non-adaptive processes in shaping genomic variation
February 28
March 13
March 20 Martin Hemberg
Harvard Medical School
Host: CMG (contact: Ilias G-S)
Zoom URL
Characterization of the tumor immune microenvironment in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma using high-plex spatial proteo-transcriptomics
March 27 Giulio Formenti
Rockefeller University
Host: CCBB (contact: Nekrutenko)
Zoom URL
Genomes and pangenomes for a new era in biology
April 3 Karol Pál
PSU
Host: CMG (contact: Makova)
Zoom URL
Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome assemblies illuminate palindromes and multi-copy genes on the Y chromosome
April 10 Vikram Agarwal
Sanofi Pasteur, Inc.
Host: CCBB (contact: Shaun Mahony)
Zoom URL
Machine learning guided mRNA design for vaccine development
April 17
April 24 Cara Love
Princeton Univ
Host: CCBB (contact: Zachary Szpiech)
Zoom URL
The good, the bad, and the rad: Examining radiation-induced stress and signatures of selection in Chornobyl wolves
May 1 Matthew Blango
Leibniz-HKI
Host: CCBB (contact: Emily Davenport)
Zoom URL
Assessing cross-kingdom RNA interference for host defense against human fungal pathogens
May 8
** Online only **
Angelika Lahnsteiner
Univ of Salzburg
Host: CMG (contact: Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL
G-quadruplexes mark sites of differential methylation in metabolic diseases