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Spring 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
January 29
4:00 pm
Xiaoheng Cheng and Amatur Rahman
The Pennsylvania State University
Zoom URL
Flexible Mixture Model Approaches That Accommodate Footprint Size Variability For Robust Detection of Balancing Selection; Representation of K-mer Sets Using Spectrum-preserving String Sets
February 5
4:00 pm
David Liberles
Temple University
Host: Yifei Huang, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Zoom URL
Gene Duplication and Protein Structure as the First Layers of a Mechanistic Approach to Studying the Evolution of the Genotype-Phenotype Map
February 12
4:00 pm
Nicholas Banovich
Tgen Translational Genomics Research Institute
Host: Emily Davenport, Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL
Single-cell RNA-sequencing Reveals Profibrotic Roles of Distinct Epithelial and Mesenchymal Lineages in Pulmonary Fibrosis
February 19
4:00 pm
Hongyi Xin
Carnegie Mellon University
Host: Mingfu Shao, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Zoom URL
Artificial-cell-type-aware Single Cell Clustering and Fake-cell-type Pruning With CITE-seq and Cell Hashing
February 26
4:00 pm
Marta Tomaszkiewicz
The Pennsylvania State University
Host: Kateryna Makova, Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL
Ampliconic Genes on the Great Ape Y Chromosomes: Rapid Evolution of Copy Number But Conservation of Expression Levels
March 4
4:00 pm
Adam MacLean
University of Southern California
Host: Shaun Mahony, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Zoom URL
Inferring Transcriptional Networks and Stem Cell Dynamics From Single-cell Genomics
March 18
4:00 pm
Ayaan Hossain and Nick Keener
The Pennsylvania State University
Zoom URL
Automated Design of Large Toolboxes of Highly Non-Repetitive Parts for Engineering Evolutionary Robust Genetic Systems
March 25
4:00 pm
Kristin Passero and Wilfried Guiblet
The Pennsylvania State University
Zoom URL
Leveraging Environment-wide, Longitudinal Data to Discern How Early-life Exposures Affect Child Health and Development; Non-B DNA Loci Effects on Mutation Rates and Selection in the Genome
To be rescheduled David McCandlish
Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory
Host: Yifei Huang, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
To be announced
To be rescheduled Iain Mathieson
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Center for Medical Genomics
To be announced
To be rescheduled Deb Kelly
The Pennsylvania State University
Host: George Perry
To be announced
To be rescheduled Vijay Kumar Pounraja; Kate Stankiewicz
The Pennsylvania State University
Using Rare Genetic Variant Background to Understand Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Using the Astrangia poculata Genome as a Model for Understanding Cnidarian Evolution and Symbiosis