Fall 2016

● 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 24	Frank Pugh Penn State University No Zoom URL	Genomic mechanisms of gene regulation and chromatin organization
August 31	Barbara Arbeithuber Penn State University No Zoom URL	DNA lesions - an important source of bias in ultrasensitive mutation detection
September 7 3:55PM	Xiang-Dong Fu University of California, San Diego No Zoom URL	Regulatory RNA on chromatin
September 14	Daehwan Kim Johns Hopkins University No Zoom URL	Graph-based alignment of NGS reads to a population of human genomes
September 21	Zhijin (Jean) Wu Brown University No Zoom URL	Analyzing gene expression measured by single cell RNA sequencing
September 28	Samir Wadhawan Bristol-Myers Squibb No Zoom URL	Transcriptome Dysregulation in NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
October 5	David Hendrix Oregon State University No Zoom URL	Biological Discovery using Transcriptomics: from Deep Sequencing to Deep Learning
October 6	Robert Kuhn University of California, Santa Cruz No Zoom URL	UCSC Genome Browser Workshop
October 12	Luis Barreiro University of Montreal No Zoom URL	Genetic ancestry and natural selection drive population differences in immune response to pathogens in humans
October 19	Yafei Lyu and Yong Jung Penn State University No Zoom URL	Multi-tissues co-expression network inference with adaptive joint graphical lasso AND Partner-Specific Prediction of Protein-RNA Interface
October 24 12:00PM	Irene Tiemann-Boege Johannes Kepler University No Zoom URL	Selfish mutations are important drivers of the paternal age effect
October 24 5:00PM 100 Huck Life Sciences	Molly Przeworski Columbia University No Zoom URL	Marker Lecture in Evolutionary Biology: Searching for the genetic variants that underlie human adaptations
October 25 100 Huck Life Sciences	Molly Przeworski Columbia University No Zoom URL	Marker Lecture in Evolutionary Biology: Of men, mice and birds: the evolution of recombination hotspots
October 26	No Zoom URL	[No seminar]
November 2	Sergi Kosakovsky Pond Temple University No Zoom URL	Scalable and biologically realistic methods for inferring selective pressures from molecular sequence data
November 9	Jose Badano Institut Pasteur de Montevideo No Zoom URL	Dissecting the genetic and cellular basis of the ciliopathy Bardet-Biedl syndrome
November 16	Rahul Vegesna and Lila Rieber Penn State University No Zoom URL	Variation in ampliconic gene copies AND 3D Chromosome Conformation at Kilobase Resolution
November 23	No Zoom URL	[Thanksgiving break]
November 30	Lucia Carbone Oregon Health & Science University No Zoom URL	The rapidly evolving gibbon karyotype as a model to study genome instability
December 7	Akshay Kakumanu Penn State University No Zoom URL	Computational methods reveal feed-forward regulatory strategy during spinal motor neuron programming
December 15 12:00PM	Joseph F. Costello University of California, San Francisco No Zoom URL	Tumor Histories Encrypted in the Genome and Epigenome