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	Advances in Modeling Microbiome and Gene Expression Data
March 26	Yogasudha Veturi PSU Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova) Zoom URL	Data-driven approaches to understand patterns in complex human diseases
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	Accurate and scalable estimation of distance and similarity using k-mers and sketching
April 14 12:00 pm Foster Auditorium (102 Paterno Library)	Edward Holmes Univ. of Sydney Host: Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Center for Medical Genomics, Center for Human Evolution & Diversity	Redefining Virus Evolution and Emergence Using Metatranscriptomis
April 16
April 23
April 30
May 7
May 14	Nathan Sheffield Host: CCBB (Paul Medvedev)