WWWGLS: Fall 2016

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Schedule for Weekly Wednesday Wartik Genomics Lecture Series and Related Events: Fall Semester 2016

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 24	Frank Pugh (PSU)	Genomic mechanisms of gene regulation and chromatin organization
Wed Aug 31	Barbara Arbeithuber (PSU: Makova lab)	DNA lesions – an important source of bias in ultrasensitive mutation detection
Wed Sep 7	Xiang-Dong Fu (UC San Diego)	Regulatory RNA on chromatin (LOCATION: 111 WARTIK LAB/ TIME: 3:55 TO 4:55PM)
Wed Sep 14	Daehwan Kim (Johns Hopkins)	Graph-based alignment of NGS reads to a population of human genomes
Wed Sep 21	Zhijin (Jean) Wu (Brown)	Analyzing gene expression measured by single cell RNA sequencing
Wed Sep 28	Samir Wadhawan (Bristol-Myers Squibb)	Transcriptome Dysregulation in NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Wed Oct 5	David Hendrix (Oregon State)	Biological Discovery using Transcriptomics: from Deep Sequencing to Deep Learning
Wed Oct 6	Robert Kuhn (Univ of California at Santa Cruz)	UCSC Genome Browser Workshop
Wed Oct 12	Luis Barreiro (Univ Montreal)	Genetic ancestry and natural selection drive population differences in immune response to pathogens in humans
Wed Oct 19	Yafei Lyu (PSU) Yong Jung (PSU)	TBA TBA
Wed Oct 24	Irene Tiemann-Boege (Johannes Kepler University)	Selfish mutations are important drivers of the paternal age effect
Wed Nov 2	Sergi Kosakovsky Pond (Temple University)	TBA
Wed Nov 9	Jose Badano (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo)	TBA
Wed Nov 16	Rahul Vegesna (PSU) Lila Rieber (PSU)	Variation in ampliconic gene copies 3D Chromosome Conformation at Kilobase Resolution
Wed Nov 23		[Thanksgiving break]
Wed Nov 30	Lucia Carbone (Oregon Health & Science University)	TBA
Wed Dec 7	Akshay Kakumanu (PSU)	Computational methods reveal feed-forward regulatory strategy during spinal motor neuron programming