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 4:00 pm	Frank Pugh Penn State University	Genomic mechanisms of gene regulation and chromatin organization
August 31 4:00 pm	Barbara Arbeithuber Penn State University	DNA lesions - an important source of bias in ultrasensitive mutation detection
September 7 3:55 pm	Xiang-Dong Fu University of California, San Diego	Regulatory RNA on chromatin
September 14 4:00 pm	Daehwan Kim Johns Hopkins University	Graph-based alignment of NGS reads to a population of human genomes
September 21 4:00 pm	Zhijin (Jean) Wu Brown University	Analyzing gene expression measured by single cell RNA sequencing
September 28 4:00 pm	Samir Wadhawan Bristol-Myers Squibb	Transcriptome Dysregulation in NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
October 5 4:00 pm	David Hendrix Oregon State University	Biological Discovery using Transcriptomics: from Deep Sequencing to Deep Learning
October 6 4:00 pm	Robert Kuhn University of California, Santa Cruz	UCSC Genome Browser Workshop
October 12 4:00 pm	Luis Barreiro University of Montreal	Genetic ancestry and natural selection drive population differences in immune response to pathogens in humans
October 19 4:00 pm	Yafei Lyu and Yong Jung Penn State University	Multi-tissues co-expression network inference with adaptive joint graphical lasso AND Partner-Specific Prediction of Protein-RNA Interface
October 24 12:00 pm	Irene Tiemann-Boege Johannes Kepler University	Selfish mutations are important drivers of the paternal age effect
October 24 5:00 pm 100 Huck Life Sciences	Molly Przeworski Columbia University	Marker Lecture in Evolutionary Biology: Searching for the genetic variants that underlie human adaptations
October 25 4:00 pm 100 Huck Life Sciences	Molly Przeworski Columbia University	Marker Lecture in Evolutionary Biology: Of men, mice and birds: the evolution of recombination hotspots
October 26 4:00 pm		[No seminar]
November 2 4:00 pm	Sergi Kosakovsky Pond Temple University	Scalable and biologically realistic methods for inferring selective pressures from molecular sequence data
November 9 4:00 pm	Jose Badano Institut Pasteur de Montevideo	Dissecting the genetic and cellular basis of the ciliopathy Bardet-Biedl syndrome
November 16 4:00 pm	Rahul Vegesna and Lila Rieber Penn State University	Variation in ampliconic gene copies AND 3D Chromosome Conformation at Kilobase Resolution
November 23 4:00 pm		[Thanksgiving break]
November 30 4:00 pm	Lucia Carbone Oregon Health & Science University	The rapidly evolving gibbon karyotype as a model to study genome instability
December 7 4:00 pm	Akshay Kakumanu Penn State University	Computational methods reveal feed-forward regulatory strategy during spinal motor neuron programming
December 15 12:00 pm	Joseph F. Costello University of California, San Francisco	Tumor Histories Encrypted in the Genome and Epigenome