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Spring 2018

● 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 12 Dan Mishmar
Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL
Mitochondrial Transcriptional Regulation - More Complex Than Once Thought
January 17
4:00 pm
Sally Mackenzie
Penn State University
Zoom URL
Decoding Cytosine Methylation Toward Epigenetic Memory in Plants
January 24
4:00 pm
Christopher (Casey) Brown
University of Pennsylvania
Zoom URL
Gene Expression as a Model and a Tool for the Dissection of Complex Trait Mechanisms
January 31
4:00 pm
Naomi Yamada & Alexandre Harris
Penn State University
Zoom URL
Titles: Characterizing Protein-DNA Binding Event Subtypes in ChIP-exo Data and Detection and Classification of Recent Selective Sweeps in Ancestral and Modern Populations from Unphased Genomes
February 7
4:00 pm
Molly Hall
Penn State University
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Beyond Genome-wide Association Studies: Computational Tools To Identify Complex Associations Predictive Of Common Disease
February 14
4:00 pm
David Koslicki
Oregon State Univ.
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics
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CMash: Probabilistic Analysis of Metagenomic Data
February 21
4:00 pm
Dajiang Liu
Penn State College of Medicine
Host: CCBB
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Efficient Computational Methods for Biobank Scale Datasets
February 28
4:00 pm
Lin An & Lila Rieber
Penn State University
Zoom URL
LIN AN: Uncovering the Hierarchical Conformation of Topologically Associating Domains from Hi-C Data; LILA RIEBER: Locus-specific Changes in 3D Chromosome Conformation
March 14
4:00 pm
CANCELLED Gregory Cooper
CANCELLED HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
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CANCELLED Genomic Diagnosis of Developmental Disabilities
March 21
4:00 pm
Kristoffer Sahlin
Penn State University
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics
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IsoCon: Deciphering Highly Similar Multigene Family Transcripts from Iso-Seq Data
March 28
4:00 pm
Rahul Vegesna & Xiaoheng Cheng
Penn State University
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Rahul: Expression and Copy Number Variation in Ampliconic Genes on the Y Chromosome of Great Apes; Xiaoheng: Detecting Shared Balancing Selection in the Absence of Trans-species Polymorphisms
April 4
4:00 pm
CANCELED: Lauren Weiss
University of CA, San Francisco
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The pERKs of Being a Modifier... and Other Stories from Complex Trait Genetics
April 11
4:00 pm
Peter Wilton
University of California, Berkeley
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics
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A Population-Phylogenetic Approach to Understanding Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy
April 18
4:00 pm
CANCELED: Harold Pimentel
Stanford University
Host: Shaun Mahony, CCBB
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Fast and Accurate RNA-Seq Analysis with Kallisto and Sleuth
April 25
4:00 pm
Hillary Koch & Yafei Lyu
Penn State University
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Hillary: A Model-Based Approach to Comparative Analysis of the Clone Size Distribution of the T Cell Receptor Repertoire Yafei: Condition-adaptive Fused Graphical Lasso (CFGL): An Adaptive Procedure for Inferring Condition-specific Gene Co-expression Network
May 2
4:00 pm
Mingyao Li
University of Pennsylvania
Host: Qunhua Li, CCBB
Zoom URL
Statistical Modeling of Cellular Heterogeneity by Single-cell RNA Sequencing
May 9
4:00 pm
Jian Ma
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Host: Dr. Feng Yue, CCBB
Zoom URL
Algorithms for Probing Nuclear Genome Organization
May 16
4:00 pm
Matthias Weissensteiner
Uppsala University, Sweden
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics
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Crow Genomics – Populations, Phenotypes and Genome Structure
May 23
4:00 pm
Fan Song & Guanjue Xiang
Penn State University
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Fan Song: The Role of MeCP2 in Chromatin Conformation; Guanjue Xiang: PKnorm: Normalizing Sequencing Depth and Signal-to-noise Ratio Between Epigenomic Data
June 1 Juilee Thakar
University of Rochester Medical Center
Host: The Center for Medical Genomics
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Making Sense of Human Immune Responses- High Dimensional Data, Knowledge and Computational Modeling