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Fall 2025

● 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
July 23
Zoom link available upon request		 Rayan Chikhi
Institut Pasteur
Host: CCBB
 Logan: Planetary-scale assembly of DNA/RNA sequencing data, with biological applications
August 27
Zoom link available upon request		 Gregory Kucherov
Gustave Eiffel University
Host: CCBB
 Sketching techniques for bioinformatics and Invertible Bloom Lookup Tables
September 3
September 10
September 17
Zoom link available upon request		 Roland Faure
The Institut Pasteur
Host: CCBB
 Fast and strain-aware metagenome assembly: a new approach
September 24
October 1
October 8
October 14
Foster Auditorium (102 Paterno Library)		 Harmit Singh Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Host: Marker Lecture in Biology
 Molecular arms races between host and viral genomes
October 15
Foster Auditorium (102 Paterno Library)		 Harmit Singh Malik
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center,
Host: Marker Lecture in Biology
 Genetic conflicts during meiosis drive the rapid evolution of essential chromatin proteins
October 22 Jacob Sieg
Post-doc in Makova Lab, PSU
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
 Non-canonical DNA in human and other ape cells with telomere-to-telomere genomes
October 29
November 3
W375 Westgate Building		 Chirag Jain
Indian Institute of Science
Host: CCBB
 Algorithms for Pangenome-based Genome Inference
November 5 April Wei
Cornell University
Host: CCBB (Christian Huber)
 Demographic and Statistical Inferences Using Graph Models of Genetic Variation
November 12
November 19 Jeremy Goecks
Moffitt Cancer Center
Host: BMB (Anton Nekrutenko)
Zoom URL		 Adventures in Biomedical AI
December 3
Zoom link available upon request		 Olivier Brisset
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
Host: Biology (Zachary Szpiech)
 Restoring adaptive potential of an endangered plant population: insights from a 25-year translocation program
December 10 Glennis Logsdon
University of Pennsylvania
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
 New insights into the variation and evolution of human centromeres