WWWGLS: Fall 2017

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Schedule for Weekly Wednesday Wartik Genomics Lecture Series and Related Events: Fall 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 Aug 30   Fereydoun Hormozdiari
Univ. of California, Davis
Hosted by: Dr. Santhosh Girirajan
Title: Genetic Structural Variation and Modules Discovery in Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Wed Sep 6 Matthew Weirauch
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Hosted by: Dr. Shaun Mahony
Title: Gene Regulation in Health and Disease
Wed Sep 13 Rori Rohlfs
San Francisco State Univ.
Hosted by: Dr. Michael DeGiorgio
Title: Detecting Signatures for Adaptive Changes in Gene Expression
Wed Sep 20 Sarah Craig
Penn State Univ.
Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/151496419
Title: Infant Weight Gain Trajectories Linked to Oral Microbiome Composition
Wed Sep 27 Nabeel Ahmed and Monika Cechova
Penn State Univ.
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/103663535
Titles: Evolutionarily Encoded Translation Kinetics Coordinate Co-Translational Ssb Chaperone Binding in Yeast and Heterochromatin Turnover Among Great Apes: Species and Gender Differences
Wed Oct 4 Joseph Lachance
Georgia Institute of Technology
Hosted by: Dr. Michael DeGiorgio
Title: Evolutionary History and the Genomic Health of Ancient and Modern Human
Wed Oct 11 Wilfried Guiblet, Marzia Cremona, Monika Cechova
Penn State Univ.
Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/251822329
Title: Non-B DNA Affects Polymerization Speed and Error Rate in Sequencers and Living Cells
Wed Oct 18, LOCATION: 501 Wartik Lab/SEMINAR START TIME: 3:45PM Wei Wang
Univ. of California, San Diego
Hosted by: Dr. Feng Yue
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/770174233
Title: Comparative Epigenomics in Human and Mouse
Mon Oct 23, LOCATION: Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library/SEMINAR START TIME: 12 noon Evolutionary Genomics Faculty Candidate

Ellen Leffler, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford

Title: The MNS blood group and resistance to malaria
Wed Oct 25, LOCATION: 501 Wartik Lab/SEMINAR START TIME: 12 noon Evolutionary Genomics Faculty Candidate

Benjamin Liebeskind, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

Title: Evolutionary proteomics of the nervous system
Wed Oct 25 Matthew Jensen and Blair Zhang
Penn State Univ.
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/471324466
Title: Gene Interaction Models of Rare Pathogenic Copy-Number Variants and Uncovering the Role of Case-Control Sample Size for Rare Variant Association Analysis through a Simulation Study
Mon Oct 30, LOCATION: Foster Auditorium, Paterno Library/SEMINAR START TIME: 12 noon Evolutionary Genomics Faculty Candidate

Yifei Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Title: Learning Sequence Function through the Lens of Evolution: Inference of Natural Selection by Unifying Machine Learning and Population Genetics
Wed Nov 1 James Taylor
John's Hopkins Univ.
Hosted by: Dr. Francesca Chiaromonte
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/112631176
Title: Chromosome Conformation in Context
Wed Nov 8 David Ray
Texas Tech Univ.
Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/253900719
Title: Studies of Genome Evolution in Non-traditional Model Organisms
Wed Nov 15 To be announced
Hosted by: Dr. Feng Yue
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/528772701
Title: To be announced
Wed Nov 29 Vijay Kumar and Victoria Li
Penn State Univ.
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/936372987
Title: An Ensemble Approach to Detect True Copy-Number Variations (CNV) Using Exomes and Evaluation of Predixcan for GWAS Prioritization and Gene Expression Prediction
Wed Dec 6 Steve Hicks
PSU College of Medicine
Hosted by: The Center for Medical Genomics
Zoom URL: https://psu.zoom.us/j/294771222
Title: The MicroRNA Landscape of Maternal Breast Milk


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