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Spring 2025

● 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 8
January 15
January 22 Prajna Hebbar
UC Santa Cruz
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL
Using high-quality gene annotations on complete primate genomes and human pangenomes to study gene evolution
January 29
February 5 Yuseob Kim
Ewha Womans Univ, S. Korea
Host: CCBB (Christian Huber)
Zoom URL
The storage effect, an explanation for genome-wide oscillatory polymorphism
February 12
Foster Auditorium (102 Paterno Library)
Luis Barreiro
Univ. Chicago
Host: Marker Lecture in Biology
Exploring evolutionary immunogenomics: Lessons from our ancestors and past pandemics
To be rescheduled Wilfried Guiblet
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
TBA
February 26 Ke Chen
PSU
Host: CCBB (Mingfu Shao)
Zoom URL
Dealing with edits: from k-mer to subsequence and independent sampling to correlated embeddings
March 5 Max Haeussler
Univ CA, Santa Cruz
Host: BMB (Anton Nekrutenko)
Zoom URL
The UCSC Genome Browser Infrastructure
March 19 Justin Silverman
PSU
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL
TBA
March 26 Yogasudha Veturi
PSU
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL
TBA
April 2 Adam Park ; Aaryan Sarnaik
PSU
Host: BG (Mingfu Shao)
Zoom URL
Prokrustean Graph: A substring index for rapid k-mer size analysis ; An exact and fast SAT formulation for the DCJ distance
April 9 Mahmudur Rahman Hera
PSU
Host: CCBB (David Koslicki)
Zoom URL
TBA
April 16 TBA
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL
April 23
April 30
May 7