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Fall 2023

● 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 23 Jessica Li
UCLA
Host: CCBB (contact: Qunhua Li)
Zoom URL
Enhancing statistical rigor in single-cell data analysis using synthetic negative controls
September 6 Yana Safonova
PSU
Host: CCBB (contact: Medvedev, Chiaromonte)
Zoom URL
Computational approaches to studying adaptive immunity
September 20 Jinguo Huang ; Jianyu Yang
PSU
Host: BGEN (contact: Koslicki)
Zoom URL
Interpreting SNP heritability in admixed populations ; SEM: sized-based expectation maximum for characterizing nucleosome positions and types
September 27 Cheryl Keller
PSU
Zoom URL
Genomics Research Incubator
October 4 Justin Silverman
PSU
Host: IGS (contact: Chiaromonte)
Zoom URL
Viewing sequence count data analysis as a problem of partially identified models: limits on inference, and strategies for rigorous estimation
October 11 Monika Cechova
UCSC
Host: CMG (contact: Makova)
Zoom URL
Complete genomes of a multi-generational pedigree to expand studies of genetic and epigenetic inheritance
October 25 Jacopo Di Iorio
PSU
Host: IGS (contact: Chiaromonte)
Zoom URL
On the use and bias of the mean squared residue score in multivariate and functional biclustering
November 1 Anton Bankevich
PSU
Host: CCBB (contact: Medvedev, Chiaromonte)
Zoom URL
Modern challenges of genome assembly
November 8 Jian Ma
Carnegie Mellon
Host: CMG (contact: Makova)
Zoom URL
Integrative modeling of multiscale single-cell spatial epigenome
November 15 Linnéa Smeds
Univ. of Uppsala
Host: CMG (contact: Makova)
Zoom URL
Conservation genomics in inbred Scandinavian wolves
November 22
[Thanksgiving break]
November 29 Ioannis Mouratidis ; Xinru Zhang
PSU
Host: BGEN (contact: Koslicki)
Zoom URL
Quasi-primes: identifying the shortest species-specific sequences ; Pooling-based phylogenetic methods elucidate accelerated evolution of cis-regulatory elements
December 6 Hyebin Song
PSU
Host: IGS (contact: Chiaromonte)
Zoom URL
Uncertainty quantification for parameter estimates from Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
December 13
[no seminar]