| Date | Presenter(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| August 30 4:00 pm |
Fereydoun Hormozdiari University of California, Davis Host: Dr. Santhosh Girirajan |
Genetic Structural Variation and Modules Discovery in Neurodevelopmental Disorders |
| September 6 4:00 pm |
Matthew Weirauch Cincinnati Children's Hospital Host: Dr. Shaun Mahony |
Gene Regulation in Health and Disease |
| September 13 4:00 pm |
Rori Rohlfs San Francisco State University Host: Dr. Michael DeGiorgio |
Detecting Signatures for Adaptive Changes in Gene Expression |
| September 20 4:00 pm |
Sarah Craig Penn State University Host: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL |
Infant Weight Gain Trajectories Linked to Oral Microbiome Composition |
| September 27 4:00 pm |
Nabeel Ahmed and Monika Cechova Penn State University Zoom URL |
Titles: Evolutionarily Encoded Translation Kinetics Coordinate Co-Translational Ssb Chaperone Binding in Yeast and Heterochromatin Turnover Among Great Apes: Species and Gender Differences |
| October 4 4:00 pm |
Joseph Lachance Georgia Institute of Technology Host: Dr. Michael DeGiorgio |
Evolutionary History and the Genomic Health of Ancient and Modern Human |
| October 11 4:00 pm |
Wilfried Guiblet, Marzia Cremona, and Monika Cechova Penn State University Host: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL |
Non-B DNA Affects Polymerization Speed and Error Rate in Sequencers and Living Cells |
| October 18 3:45 pm |
Wei Wang University of California, San Diego Host: Dr. Feng Yue Zoom URL |
Comparative Epigenomics in Human and Mouse |
| October 23 12:00 pm Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library |
Ellen Leffler University of Oxford |
The MNS blood group and resistance to malaria |
| October 25 12:00 pm |
Benjamin Liebeskind University of Texas at Austin |
Evolutionary proteomics of the nervous system |
| October 25 4:00 pm |
Matthew Jensen and Blair Zhang Penn State University Zoom URL |
Gene Interaction Models of Rare Pathogenic Copy-Number Variants and Uncovering the Role of Case-Control Sample Size for Rare Variant Association Analysis through a Simulation Study |
| October 30 12:00 pm Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library |
Yifei Huang Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Learning Sequence Function through the Lens of Evolution: Inference of Natural Selection by Unifying Machine Learning and Population Genetics |
| November 1 4:00 pm |
James Taylor Johns Hopkins University Host: Dr. Francesca Chiaromonte Zoom URL |
Chromosome Conformation in Context |
| November 8 4:00 pm |
David Ray Texas Tech University Host: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL |
Studies of Genome Evolution in Non-traditional Model Organisms |
| November 15 4:00 pm |
To be announced Host: Dr. Feng Yue Zoom URL |
To be announced |
| November 29 4:00 pm |
Vijay Kumar and Victoria Li Penn State University Zoom URL |
An Ensemble Approach to Detect True Copy-Number Variations (CNV) Using Exomes and Evaluation of Predixcan for GWAS Prioritization and Gene Expression Prediction |
| December 6 4:00 pm |
Steve Hicks Penn State College of Medicine Host: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL |
The MicroRNA Landscape of Maternal Breast Milk |