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Fall 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
August 26
September 2
September 9
September 16
September 23 Jacob Sieg
Post-doc in Makova Lab, PSU
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
 Direct detection of alternative DNA conformations with long-read sequencing and machine learning approaches
September 30 Qunhua Li
PSU
Host: CCBB (Paul Medvedev)
 What Does It Mean to Be Reproducible? From Genomic Discoveries to Spatial Experiments and AI-Assisted Workflows
October 7
10:30 am
Penn State Outreach Building, Rooms 121 G&H, 100 Innovation Blvd., University Park, or Online via Zoom/Zoom link can be obtained by registration link: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/a2yhpk3		 Stephen W. Schaeffer
PSU
 Genetics, Genomics, and Genealogy: A Fruit Fly Geneticist’s Journey
October 7
October 14 Mayra Mendoza
Post-doc in Makova Lab, PSU
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
 The Role of Cytogenetics in the Genomic Era: Insights from the Alpaca Genome
October 21 Lorenzo Testa
Senior PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University
Host: CCBB (Francesca Chiaromonte)
 Accurate prediction in reconstructed spatial transcriptomes does not ensure valid biological discovery
October 27
October 28
November 4
November 11
November 18 Rowang Li
Cedars-Sinai, Computational Biomedicine
Host: CCBB (Le Bao)
 TBA
November 25 No seminar/holiday
December 2
December 9
December 16