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 |
Other Semesters:
- WWWGLS: Spring 2018
- WWWGLS: Fall 2017
- WWWGLS: Spring 2017
- WWWGLS: Fall 2016
