Spring 2021

● 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
February 10 4:00 pm	Iain Mathieson University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine Host: Kateryna Makova, Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL	Detecting Natural Selection in Humans from the Stone Age to the Present-day
February 24 4:00 pm	Paul Medvedev The Pennsylvania State University Host: Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	The statistics of k-mers from a sequence undergoing a simple mutation process without spurious matches?
March 3 4:00 pm	Knut Reinert Freie Universität Berlin Host: Paul Medvedev, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	Can we analyze ALL genomic sequences on earth?
March 17 4:00 pm	Nicole Lazar The Pennsylvania State University Host: Francesca Chiaromonte, Institute for Genome Sciences Zoom URL	Topological Data Analysis for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data
March 31 4:00 pm	Anne-Ruxandra Carvuis University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Host: Shaun Mahony,Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	Molecular mechanisms of evolutionary innovation
April 7 4:00 pm	Iman Hajirasouliha Weill Cornell Medicine Host: Paul Medvedev, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL	Making precision medicine more predictive -- long-range sequencing and deep learning classification
April 14 4:00 pm	Andrew C. Bishop Wake Forest School of Medicine Host: Sarah Craig, Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL	Making scents of metabolic disease: Tracking metabolic health through exhaled breath metabolomics
April 21 4:00 pm	Hyebin Song The Pennsylvania State University Host: Francesca Chiaromonte, Institute for Genome Sciences Zoom URL	Learning From Laboratory Protein Evolution Data
To be rescheduled	Macha Nikolski Institut de Biochimie Génétique et Université de Bordeau Host: Kateryna Makova, Center for Medical Genomics	VirHunter: a deep learning-based method for detection of novel viruses in plant sequencing data
September 22 4:00 pm	Edmundo Torres-Gonzalez The Pennsylvania State University Host: Kateryna Makova	TBA