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== Schedule for Weekly Wednesday Wartik Genomics Lecture Series and Related Events:&nbsp;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.


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!Date
!Presenter(s)
!Topic
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| <span style="white-space: nowrap">Wed Jan 18 &nbsp;</span>
| Siyang Zheng<br>(Penn State University)<br>(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<br>(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<br>(Penn State University)
| Title: Functional Motif Discovery for “Omics” Curves
|-
| Wed Feb 8
| A. Murat Eren<br>(The University of Chicago)<br>(Co-hosted by The Microbiome Center)
| Title: Genome-resolved metagenomics: A perfect mixture of opportunities and challenges
|-
| Wed Feb 15
| Kasper Daniel Hansen<br>(Institution: Johns Hopkins University)
| Title: DNA methylation and chromatin accessibility in the normal human brain
|-
| Wed Feb 22
| Thanh Le and Bruce Chen<br>(Penn State University)
| Title: Gut Microbiome Dynamics Under Differentially Fatty Diets AND Investigating L1 Transposition with Functional Data Analysis 
|-
| Wed Mar 1
| Ben Langmead<br>(Johns Hopkins University)
| Title: Unlocking sequence data archives with scalable software and resources
|-
| Wed Mar 15
| Michael DeGiorgio<br>(Penn State University)<br>(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<br>(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<br>(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 
| <font color=red>'''SPECIAL SEMINAR'''</font><br>Marc S Greenblatt<br>(University of Vermont College of Medicine)
| Title: Pathogenic or Not?  Classifying Genetic Variants in Lynch Syndrome by Integrating In Vitro, Computational, and Other Evidence<br>(<font color=red>'''LOCATION/TIME: 501 Wartik Lab, 3:00pm - 4:00pm'''</font>)
|-
| Mon Apr 3
| Jean-Luc Jannink<br>(Cornell University)<br>(Co-hosted with Department of Plant Biology)
| Title: Genomic Selection and Purging Genetic Load in Cassava, An Outcrossing Clonally Ropagated Crop<br>(<font color=red>'''LOCATION/TIME: 108 Wartik Lab, 12:10 - 1:10pm'''</font>)
|-
| Wed Apr 5
| Ross Hardison<br>(Penn State University)
| Title: Validated Systematic Integration of epigenomic data in hematopoiesis
|-
| Wed Apr 12
| Jason Ernst<br>(University of California, Los Angeles)
| Title: Computational Approaches for Deciphering the Non-coding Human Genome
|-
| Wed Apr 19
| Yogeshwar Kelkar<br>(University of Rochester)<br>(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<br>(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<br>(University of California, Los Angeles)
| Title: Elucidating the Complexity of the Mammalian m6A Epitranscriptome 
|-
| Wed May 10
| Michael Wu<br>(Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center )
| Title: Community level analysis of microbiome profiling studies using similarity based methods
|-
| Wed May 17
| Laura Carrel<br>(Penn State Hershey Medical Center)<br>(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
| 
|}


'''Other Semesters:'''

* [[WWWGLS: Fall 2016]]