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Spring 2026

● 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 21 Linnea Smeds
Uppsala University
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL		 Non-canonical DNA in bird telomere-to-telomere genomes
January 28 Wilfried Guiblet
PSU
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL		 Beyond the BG program: Nucleosomes positioning and RNA biology
February 4
February 10
4:00 pm
100 Life Science Building		 Karen Miga
UC Santa Cruz
Host: Huck Distinguished Lecture Series
 Population-Scale Centromere Genomics in the Pangenome Era
February 11 No seminar
February 18
February 25
March 4 Junseok Park
Baylor College of Medicine
Host: CCBB (Stephanie Won, Ph.D. student Koslicki Lab)
Zoom URL		 Vision AI in Multimodal Biomedical Data Analysis
March 11
March 18 Li Song
Dartmouth College
Host: CCBB (Mingfu Shao)
Zoom URL		 TBA
March 25 Jonathan LoTempio
UC Irvine
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL		 TBA
April 1 Matt Pennell
Cornell University
Host: CCBB (Yana Safonova)
Zoom URL		 TBA
April 8 Artem Babaian
Univ. of Toronto
Host: CCBB (Anton Nekrutenko)
Zoom URL		 TBA
April 15 Iman Hajirasouliha
Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University
Host: CCBB (Christian Huber)
Zoom URL		 TBA
April 22 Esther Betran
UT Arlington
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL		 TBA
April 29 Ritambhara Singh
Brown University
Host: CCBB (Mingfu Shao)
Zoom URL		 TBA
May 6
May 13
May 20
May 27