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Fall 2019

● 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 7
12:00 pm
501 Wartik Lab
Marius van den Beek
Institut Curie
Host: Anton Nekrutenko
Zoom URL
Somatic Transposition in the Aging Fly Gut and Developing Galaxy for the Lab
August 28
4:00 pm
Xiaojun Lance Lian
The Pennsylvania State University
Host: Ross Hardison
Zoom URL
RNA-Seq Analysis of Cardiac Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
August 30
12:00 pm
Taras K. Oleksyk
Oakland University
Host: Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL
Genomics, Conservation, and Island Biogeography in the Caribbean
September 4
4:00 pm
Stephen Schaeffer
The Pennsylvania State University
Zoom URL
The Opposing Forces of Selection and Gene Conversion Acting on Chromosomal Rearrangements in Drosophila pseudoobscura
September 11
4:00 pm
Keith Cheng
The Pennsylvania State University
Host: Ross Hardison
Zoom URL
From Human Questions to Model Systems: Functional Genomics and Computational Phenomics
September 18
4:00 pm
Matthew Weirauch
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Host: Ross Hardison, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Zoom URL
Discovery of Altered Gene Regulatory Mechanisms in Human Disease
September 25
4:00 pm
Lila Reiber and Ana Gonzalez
The Pennsylvania State University
Zoom URL
Comparison of 3D Genome Structures Between Cell Types and Sisterhood in coral genomics; the case of the Orbicella species complex
October 3
3:30 pm
100 Life Sciences, Berg Auditorium
Scott Edwards
Harvard University
Host: Departent of Biology, Marker Lecture
Convergent Regulatory Evolution and Loss of Flight in Paleognathous Birds
October 4
3:30 pm
100 Life Sciences, Berg Auditorium
Scott Edwards
Harvard University
Host: Department of Biology, Marker Lecture
Bird Evolution: from dinosaurs to DNA
October 9
4:00 pm
Suzanne Gonzalez
Penn State College of Medicine
Host: Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL
Breaking Bipolar: Convergence of Mitochondrial, Circadian, and Ion Channel Dysfunction
October 16
4:00 pm
Kateryna Makova
The Pennsylvania State University
Host: Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL
The Germline Bottleneck, Maternal Age, and Selection Modulate the Transmission Dynamics of Mitochondrial DNA in Human Pedigrees
October 23
1:00 pm
Camden Jansen
University of California, Irvine
Host: Ross Hardison
Zoom URL
Building Gene Regulatory Networks using Self-Organizing Maps
October 23
4:00 pm
Bradley Langhorst
New England BioLabs
Host: Anton Nekrutenko
Zoom URL
Extracting Information from Challenging FFPE and Low-Input Samples
October 30
4:00 pm
Tarik Salameh and Sofia Roitman
The Pennsylvania State University
Zoom URL
Chromatin Loop Detection Via Supervised Learning in Genome-wide Contact Data and Surviving marginalized reefs; assessing the implications of the microbiome on coral physiology and survivorship
November 6
4:00 pm
Bryan Howie
Adaptive Biotechnologies
Host: George Perry
Zoom URL
Profiling Adaptive Immunity: Translating Lymphocyte Repertoires into Medical Insights
November 13
4:00 pm
Irina Elcheva
Penn State College of Medicine
Host: Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL
Stem Cell Models for Studying Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis
November 20
4:00 pm
Divyanshi Srivastava and Arun Srinivasan
The Pennsylvania State University
Zoom URL
Characterizing the Sequence and Prior Chromatin Determinants of TF Binding and The Compostional Knockoff Filter for Microbiome Data
December 4
4:00 pm
Han Mei
The Pennsylvania State University
Host: Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL
Tracking Plasmid Heteroplasmy in Experimental Evolution
December 11
4:00 pm
Alex Harris and Hillary Koch
The Pennsylvania State University
Zoom URL
A likelihood approach for uncovering selective sweep signatures from haplotype data and High dimensional association detection in hematopoietic cell populations