Fall 2020

● 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 4:00 pm	Kathryn Stankiewicz and Matthew Jensen The Pennsylvania State University	Using the Astrangia poculata Genome as a Model for Understanding Cnidarian Evolution and Symbiosis; Patterns of Genetic Variant Combinations Determine the Phenotypic Trajectory of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
September 9 4:00 pm	Sarah Craig The Pennsylvania State University Host: Center for Medican Genomics Zoom URL	1H-NMR Metabolomics Reveals Associations With Child BMI at 2 Years
September 16 4:00 pm	Jesse Gillis Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Host: Santhosh Girirajan Zoom URL	The Transcriptional Legacy of Developmental Stochasticity
September 23 4:00 pm	Jordan Hughley and Adam Rork The Pennsylvania State University Zoom URL	AbbVie Summer Internship Experience; Comparative Transcriptomics Offer Insight Into Carabid Beetle Chemical Defense Evolution
October 14 4:00 pm	Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes The Pennsylvania State University Host: Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL	Improvements in Discovery and Fine-Mapping of Obesity-Related Traits with Diverse Ancestral Samples
October 21 4:00 pm	Alejandra Medina-Rivera University of Mexico Host: Shaun Mahony, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	Characterizing the Effect of Genetic Variants Within Promoters with Distal Enhancer Functions
October 28 4:00 pm	Marcella Baiz The Pennsylvania State University Host: George Perry Zoom URL	Repeated Evolution and Introgression of Pigmentation Genes in a Colorful Songbird Radiation
November 4 4:00 pm	David McCandlish Cold Springs Harbor Lab Host: Yifei Huang and the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	Modeling Higher-order Genetic Interactions
November 11 4:00 pm	Boris Rebolledo Jaramillo Center for Genetics and Genomics, Facultad de Medicina CAS - Universidad del Desarrollo Host: Kateryna Makova, Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL	Mitochondrial Contribution to Prodromal Manifestations of Parkinson Disease in 22q Deletion Syndrome Patients
November 18 4:00 pm	Aria Khademi The Pennsylvania State University Host: George Perry Zoom URL	Causal Explainable AI: A Novel Causal Framework for Explaining Black Box Model Predictions
December 2 4:00 pm	Karen Miga Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz Host: Ross Hardison Zoom URL	Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure
December 9 4:00 pm	Justin Silverman The Pennsylvania State University Host: Francesca Chiaromonte Zoom URL	Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Sequence Count Data