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Spring 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
January 11
4:00 pm
Manuel Llinás
PSU
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL
Harnessing metabolomics to subvert malaria parasites
January 18
4:00 pm
Ross Hardison
PSU
Zoom URL
My half-century of studying gene regulation
To be rescheduled Giulio Formenti
Rockefeller University
Host: Anton Nekrutenko
High-quality reference genomes and pangenomes for a new era in biology
February 1
4:00 pm
Anna Calderon ; Ana Leon Apodaca
PSU
Host: PJ Perry
Zoom URL
Comparing runs of homozygosity in Setophaga warblers ; Genomic consequences of isolation and inbreeding in an island dingo population
February 8
4:00 pm
Santhosh Girirajan
PSU Graduate School
Host: Michael Verderame
Zoom URL
Public Forum for Candidates for the Chair of BGEN
To be rescheduled Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares
PSU College of Medicine
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
Methods for the detection of human diseases
February 22
4:00 pm
Stefan Canzar
PSU
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL
Of buried transcripts and blurred cell types: transcriptomes under the magnifying lens
March 1
4:00 pm
Xiang Zhu
PSU Dept. of Statistics
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL
Applying an enhancer lens to human disease genetics
March 15
4:00 pm
Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares
PSU College of Medicine
Host: Kateryna Makova
Zoom URL
Methods for the detection of human diseases
March 22
4:00 pm
Sudha Veturi
PSU Biobehavioral Health
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL
Data driven approach to understand pleiotropy between the human brain (neuroimaging) and complex human diseases
To be rescheduled Amatur Rahman
PSU
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
April 5
4:00 pm
Raquel Assis
Florida Atlantic Univ
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL
Statistical methods for learning about trait evolution
April 6
12:00 pm
Michael DeGiorgio
Florida Atlantic Univ
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL
Feature generation strategies for improving predictive models of adaptation
April 12
4:00 pm
Jennifer Wagner
PSU
Host: PJ Perry
Zoom URL
Algorithmic Fairness in the Roberts Court Era
April 18
1:00 pm
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
Karen Vasquez (keynote); Phil Bevilacqua, Sally Assmann, Ilias Georgakopoulos-Soares, Kristin Eckert
U of Texas; PSU
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics (contact: Kateryna Makova)
Structured Nucleic Acids Day: Novel Mechanisms of Genetic Instability in Cancer (... and more)
April 19
4:00 pm
Troy LaPolice ; Lexi Morrissey
PSU
Host: PJ Perry
Zoom URL
Agent based spatial model of European Neolithic farming expansion reveals high levels of assortative mating and limited cultural transmission ; Allo: an easily integrable multi-mapped read rescue strategy for repetitive element inclusive ChIP-seq analysis pipelines
April 26
4:00 pm
Stéphanie Bedhomme
French National Centre for Scientific Research
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics (contact: Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL
Deciphering the horizontal traffic rules of aminoglycoside resistance genes
May 10
4:00 pm
Amatur Rahman
PSU
Host: CCBB (contact: Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL
Disk compression algorithms for de Bruijn graphs