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Spring 2017

● 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 18
4:00 pm
Siyang Zheng
Penn State University
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics with videoconference connection to Hershey room CG628
NGS for Liquid Biopsy - Analyses of Single Circulating Tumor Cells and Extracellular Vesicles from Blood Samples of Cancer Patients
January 25
4:00 pm
Shefali Setia and Bo Zhang
Penn State University
Identifying genetic associations with variability in metabolic health and blood count laboratory values: Diving into the quantitative traits by leveraging longitudinal data from an EHR and Epigenetic Regulation in T-ALL by Ikaros
February 1
4:00 pm
Marzia Cremona
Penn State University
Functional Motif Discovery for "Omics" Curves
February 8
4:00 pm
A. Murat Eren
The University of Chicago
Host: The Microbiome Center
Genome-resolved metagenomics: A perfect mixture of opportunities and challenges
February 15
4:00 pm
Kasper Daniel Hansen
Johns Hopkins University
DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility in the normal human brain
February 22
4:00 pm
Thanh Le and Bruce Chen
Penn State University
Gut Microbiome Dynamics Under Differentially Fatty Diets AND Investigating L1 Transposition with Functional Data Analysis
March 1
4:00 pm
Ben Langmead
Johns Hopkins University
Unlocking sequence data archives with scalable software and resources
March 15
4:00 pm
Michael DeGiorgio
Penn State University
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics with videoconference connection to Hershey room CG628
Uncovering regions of ancestral positive selection with ancient and modern DNA
March 22
4:00 pm
Arjun Krishnan
Michigan State University
"Nobody knew health and disease could be so complicated" - Some integrative data-driven insights into underlying genetic mechanisms
March 29
4:00 pm
Naomi Yamada and Samarth Rangavittal
Penn State University
Characterizing DNA-protein crosslinking points and binding sub-types in ChIP-exo and Assembly and analysis of Y-linked data from great apes
March 31 Marc S Greenblatt
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Pathogenic or Not? Classifying Genetic Variants in Lynch Syndrome by Integrating In Vitro, Computational, and Other Evidence
April 3
12:10 pm
Jean-Luc Jannink
Cornell University
Host: Department of Plant Biology
Genomic Selection and Purging Genetic Load in Cassava, An Outcrossing Clonally Ropagated Crop
April 5
4:00 pm
Ross Hardison
Penn State University
Validated Systematic Integration of epigenomic data in hematopoiesis
April 12
4:00 pm
Jason Ernst
University of California, Los Angeles
Computational Approaches for Deciphering the Non-coding Human Genome
April 19
4:00 pm
Yogeshwar Kelkar
University of Rochester
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics with videoconference connection to Hershey room CG628
Evolutionary consequences of asexual reproduction on a wasp genome
April 26
4:00 pm
Divyanshi Srivastava and Tarik Salameh
Penn State University
Titles: Characterizing the role of hox transcription factors in specifying motor neuron identity and Machine Learning and Pharmacogenomics in Multiple Sclerosis
May 3
4:00 pm
Yi Xing
University of California, Los Angeles
Elucidating the Complexity of the Mammalian m6A Epitranscriptome
May 10
4:00 pm
Michael Wu
Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center
Community level analysis of microbiome profiling studies using similarity based methods
May 17
4:00 pm
Laura Carrel
Penn State Hershey Medical Center
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics with videoconference connection to Hershey room CG624E
Variable expression from the inactive X chromosome: identifying tissue and individual differences and role in traits
May 24
4:00 pm