WWWGLS: Spring 2017
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Schedule for Weekly Wednesday Wartik Genomics Lecture Series and Related Events: Spring Semester 2017
Seminars are usually held on Wednesdays from 4:00-5:00 pm in the large commons area ("curved room") of 501 Wartik, unless otherwise noted. Coffee, tea, and cookies are served starting about 3:30 pm.
| Date | Presenter(s) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Wed Jan 18 | Siyang Zheng (Penn State University) (Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics with videoconference connection to Hershey room CG628) |
Title: NGS for Liquid Biopsy – Analyses of Single Circulating Tumor Cells and Extracellular Vesicles from Blood Samples of Cancer Patients |
| Wed Jan 25 | Shefali Setia and Bo Zhang (Penn State University) |
Title: 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 |
| Wed Feb 1 | Marzia Cremona (Penn State University) |
Title: Functional Motif Discovery for “Omics” Curves |
| Wed Feb 8 | A. Murat Eren (The University of Chicago) (Co-hosted by The Microbiome Center) |
Title: Genome-resolved metagenomics: A perfect mixture of opportunities and challenges |
| Wed Feb 15 | Kasper Daniel Hansen (Institution: Johns Hopkins University) |
Title: DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility in the normal human brain |
| Wed Feb 22 | Thanh Le and Bruce Chen (Penn State University) |
Title: Gut Microbiome Dynamics Under Differentially Fatty Diets AND Investigating L1 Transposition with Functional Data Analysis |
| Wed Mar 1 | Ben Langmead (Johns Hopkins University) |
Title: Unlocking sequence data archives with scalable software and resources |
| Wed Mar 15 | Michael DeGiorgio (Penn State University) (Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics with videoconference connection to Hershey room CG628) |
Title: Uncovering regions of ancestral positive selection with ancient and modern DNA |
| Wed Mar 22 | Arjun Krishnan (Michigan State University) |
Title: "Nobody knew health and disease could be so complicated” - Some integrative data-driven insights into underlying genetic mechanisms |
| Wed Mar 29 | Naomi Yamada and Samarth Rangavittal (Penn State University) |
Title: Characterizing DNA-protein crosslinking points and binding sub-types in ChIP-exo and Assembly and analysis of Y-linked data from great apes |
| Fri Mar 31 | SPECIAL SEMINAR Marc S Greenblatt (University of Vermont College of Medicine) |
Title: Pathogenic or Not? Classifying Genetic Variants in Lynch Syndrome by Integrating In Vitro, Computational, and Other Evidence (LOCATION/TIME: 501 Wartik Lab, 3:00pm - 4:00pm) |
| Mon Apr 3 | Jean-Luc Jannink (Cornell University) (Co-hosted with Department of Plant Biology) |
Title: Genomic Selection and Purging Genetic Load in Cassava, An Outcrossing Clonally Ropagated Crop (LOCATION/TIME: 108 Wartik Lab, 12:10 - 1:10pm) |
| Wed Apr 5 | Ross Hardison (Penn State University) |
Title: Validated Systematic Integration of epigenomic data in hematopoiesis |
| Wed Apr 12 | Jason Ernst (University of California, Los Angeles) |
Title: Computational Approaches for Deciphering the Non-coding Human Genome |
| Wed Apr 19 | Yogeshwar Kelkar (University of Rochester) (Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics with videoconference connection to Hershey room CG628) |
Title: Evolutionary consequences of asexual reproduction on a wasp genome |
| Wed Apr 26 | 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 |
| Wed May 3 | Yi Xing (University of California, Los Angeles) |
Title: Elucidating the Complexity of the Mammalian m6A Epitranscriptome |
| Wed May 10 | Michael Wu (Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center ) |
Title: Community level analysis of microbiome profiling studies using similarity based methods |
| Wed May 17 | Laura Carrel (Penn State Hershey Medical Center) (Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics with videoconference connection to Hershey room CG624E) |
Title: Variable expression from the inactive X chromosome: identifying tissue and individual differences and role in traits |
| Wed May 24 | CANCELLED |
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