Events for March 6, 2023 - January 30, 2023

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania “Genome folding, unfolding, and refolding in the mammalian brain” Hosted by Hilary Coller

TITLE: "Mechanisms of robust entrainment of biological oscillators involved in gastric peristalsis.” ABSTRACT: Oscillator entrainment is a widely observed phenomenon in natural systems. Using a computational modeling approach, we decipher […]

TITLE: "Defining chromatin accessibility and molecular dysregulation in Down Syndrome." ABSTRACT: Despite accumulating almost two centuries of medical information, the exact mechanisms underlying Down Syndrome (DS) developmental pathology remain unknown. DS […]

Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Personnel, UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics “Citizen Scientific Racism: White Nationalist Appropriations of Genetic Research” Hosted by Christina Palmer  

TITLE: "Advancing admixture graph estimation via maximum likelihood network orientation." ABSTRACT: Admixture, the interbreeding between previously distinct populations, is a pervasive force in evolution. The evolutionary history of populations in the […]

TITLE: "Sources of zeros in single-cell RNA-seq data and how they affect data analysis." ABSTRACT: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technologies have revolutionized biomedical sciences by enabling genome-wide profiling of gene expression levels at an unprecedented single-cell resolution. A distinct characteristic of scRNA-seq data is the vast proportion of zeros unseen in bulk RNA-seq data. Researchers […]

Associate Dean for the Humanities, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor “TBD: History of genetic counseling” Hosted by Christina Palmer