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Fall 2024

● 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
August 9
8:30 am
[venue TBA]		 Zhiping Weng, Ben Raphael, et al.
UMass, Princeton, PSU, et al.
Host: CCBB (Mingfu Shao, David Koslicki, Yana Safonova, Anton Bankevich)
 Workshop on Emerging Methods for Sequence Analysis (WEMSA-24)
August 28
September 4
September 11 Giorgio Vinciguerra
Univ of Pisa
Host: CCBB (Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL		 Time for learned data structures
September 18 Timothy Jegla
PSU
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL		 Comparison of animal and protozoan genomes suggests that neuronal ion channels are not so neuronal after all
September 25
9:30 am
Shaver's Creek
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
 Center for Medical Genomics faculty retreat
October 2
9:30 am
501 Wtk; keynote zoom 3pm		 Dajiang Liu, et al.
PSU
Host: CCBB (Paul Medvedev)
Zoom URL		 Bioinformatics Method Developers Community Day (BioMethodDay 2024) <www.ccbb.psu.edu/wip2024> -- Keynote: Leveraging EHR-based biobanks to predict disease risks and understand gene x environment interactions
October 9
NOTE: new zoom link >>>		 Sebastian Pena ; Qiuhai Zeng
PSU
Host: CCBB (Qunhua Li)
Zoom URL		 Constructing cell-type taxonomy by optimal transport with relaxed marginal constraints ; Linkreg: a statistical framework for linking genome-wide candidate cis-regulatory elements to target genes
October 16 Kateryna Makova
PSU
Host: CMG
Zoom URL		 Complete sequences and evolutionary analysis of great ape sex chromosomes
October 23
October 30
November 6 Linnéa Smeds and Saswat Mohanty
PSU
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
Zoom URL		 Non-canonical DNA in human and other ape telomere-to-telomere genomes
November 13
November 20 Abigail Sequeira ; Allison Zvarick
PSU
Host: BG (David Koslicki)
Zoom URL		 Using a haplotype-based method to detect selective sweeps in ancient human genomic data ; Challenges and solutions for cataloging microRNAs in an era of big data
December 4 Judith Rodriguez ;
PSU
Host: BGEN (David Koslicki)
 Leveraging FracMinHash containment for genomic dN/dS ;
To be rescheduled Prajna Hebbar
UC Santa Cruz
Host: CMG (Kateryna Makova)
 Using high-quality gene annotations on complete primate genomes and human pangenomes to study gene evolution
December 18