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