| Date | Presenter(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| August 22 4:00 pm |
Nikolay V. Dokholyan Penn State College of Medicine Host: The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL |
Multiscale Modeling and Design of Biological Molecules |
| August 29 4:00 pm |
Debmalya Nandy and Lucilla Pizzo Penn State University Zoom URL |
Debmalya: Covariate Information Number for Feature Screening in Ultrahigh-Dimensional Supervised Learning; Lucilla: 16p12.1 Deletion as a Model for the Complex Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disease |
| September 5 4:00 pm |
Bob Harris Penn State University Zoom URL |
1) Noise Cancelling Repeat Finder 2) Sabutan |
| September 12 4:00 pm |
Angelika Heissl Johannes Kepler University Host: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL |
Poly-A Tracts and Their Influence on Human Meiotic Recombination |
| September 19 4:00 pm |
Saurabh Sinha University of Illinois Host: The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL |
Statistical and Biophysics-inspired Methods for Discovery of Gene Regulatory Mechanisms |
| September 26 4:00 pm |
Xueyuan Jiang and Mehreen Mughal Penn State University Zoom URL |
Xueyuan: Functional evolution of duplicate genes in animals and plants; Mehreen: Localizing and Classifying Adaptive Targets with Trend Filtered Regression |
| October 3 4:00 pm |
Aaron Quinlan University of Utah Host: Santhosh Girirajan Zoom URL |
Constrained Coding Regions and Patterns of Germline Mutation Revealed by Large, Multi-Generational Human Pedigrees |
| October 10 4:00 pm |
Arslan Zaidi Penn State University Host: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL |
Investigating Mito-nuclear Interactions in Admixed Human Populations |
| October 17 4:00 pm |
Suming Huang Penn State College of Medicine Host: Ross Hardison Zoom URL |
Chromatin Boundary and lncRNA Coordinate to Control HSC Function and Leukemogenesis |
| October 24 4:00 pm |
Aakrosh Ratan University of Virginia Host: The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Zoom URL |
Driver Genes and Gene Sets in Cancer |
| October 31 4:00 pm |
Bo Zhang and Jordan Hughey Penn State University Zoom URL |
De Novo Assembly of Zebrafish Genome AND Identifying Target Genes for Regulatory Variants and Fine Mapping Causal Variants of Smoking and Drinking Addiction Related Traits |
| November 7 4:00 pm |
Vaishali Katju Texas A&M University Host: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL |
Spontaneous Mutation through the Lens of Experimental Evolution: Genomic Insights from a Simple Worm |
| November 14 4:00 pm |
Molly Hall Penn State University Zoom URL |
TBA |
| November 28 4:00 pm |
Divyanshi Srivastava and Ana Kenney Penn State University Zoom URL |
Divyanshi: Characterizing the Sequence and Chromatin Determinants of Transcription Factor Binding with Deep Neural Networks Ana: Harnessing Longitudinal Data to Derive a New Genetic Risk Score for Childhood Obesity |
| December 12 2:00 pm |
Marta Tomaszkiewicz Penn State University Host: The Center for Medical Genomics Zoom URL |
Amplicomics of Male-specific Genes in 100 Men Across Major Y Chromosome Haplogroups |