Current Issues in Genetics (CIG)
Current Issues In Genetics: 2018 - 2021
| Date | Presenter | Talk | |
| 10/1/21 | Polly Fordyce | Short tandem repeats recruit transcription factors to tune eukaryotic gene expression | |
| 10/1/21 | Abbey Thompson | Genetics at The Tech Interactive | |
| 9/24/21 | Shanta Rajaram | Careers in Health Science Administration at the NIH | |
| 9/24/21 | Jesse Engreitz | Mapping the regulatory wiring of the genome to connect disease variants to functions | |
| 4/30/21 | Alex Kern | Characterizing Selection on the Ergosterol Pathway Through Targeted Metabolomics and Precision Genome Editing | |
| 4/30/21 | Rebecca Culver | Colons or semi-colons? Punctuating the composition of microbial communities throughout the human gastrointestinal tract | |
| 4/16/21 | Stephen Boeynaems | Phase separation as a common killing strategy of bioactive peptides | |
| 4/16/21 | Adam Reeves | Evolution of diapause in the African killifish by remodeling of ancient gene regulatory landscapes | |
| 4/9/21 | Kelsey Fryer | Investigating the role of chromatin associated RNAs in centromere maintenance | |
| 4/9/21 | Michael Snyder | Big Data, Health and COVID-19 | |
| 3/26/21 | Matthew Buckley | Cell type-specific aging clocks quantify rejuvenation of neurogenic niche | |
| 3/19/21 | Laura Donohue | Leveraging genome-wide mapping of regulatory landscapes to identify combinatorial TF vocabularies in health and disease | |
| 3/19/21 | David Gennert | The dynamic chromatin landscape of CAR T cell exhaustion | |
| 3/12/21 | Robert Coukos | High-throughput investigation of protein localization and protein-protein interaction | |
| 3/12/21 | Casey Gifford | Getting to the heart of the matter: complex genetics and congenital heart disease | |
| 2/12/21 | Olivia de Goede | Examining the potential for cis-natural antisense transcripts to trigger endogenous immune responses | |
| 2/12/21 | Daphne Martschenko | Gatekeeping in Genetics: Shifting the Priorities of the Research Enterprise | |
| 1/22/21 | Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong | Mechanisms underlying environmental and genetic control of cardiometabolic disease | |
| 1/22/21 | Julia Salzman | Splicing at single cell resolution | |
| 1/15/21 | David Lipman | Genomics for Food Safety & A resource for studying short term evolution | |
| 1/15/21 | Alex Colville | Dissecting cellular senescence with genetic screens | |
| 12/4/20 | Nathan Abell | The Landscape of High-Resolution Allele-Specific Expression in the eGTEx Consortium and an Ovarian Cancer Cohort | |
| 12/4/20 | Doug Vollrath | Assisted Living in the Outer Retina | |
| 11/20/20 | Hannah De Jong | Tying human and viral genomic variation to disease phenotypes | |
| 11/20/20 | Hua Tang | The Genetics of Protein Abundance in Human Tissues | |
| 11/13/20 | Jin Billy Lli | RNA Editing and Innate Immunity | |
| 11/13/20 | Kathryn Ribay | Moving from antiracist talk to antiracist action: Research-backed strategies from education | |
| 10/30/20 | Maria Barna | Ribosomes in gene regulation: controlling the diversity of proteins made in specific cells, tissues, and organisms | |
| 10/30/20 | Kay Kobak | Generating and Harnessing a Robust Placental Epigenome | |
| 10/16/20 | Jennifer Doherty | Mental Health and Wellness in Grad School | |
| 10/16/20 | Graham Irwin | Searching Beyond the Streetlamp: Recurrent Repeat Expansions in Cancer Genomes | |
| 10/9/20 | Nathan Abell | The Landscape of High-Resolution Allele-Specific Expression in the eGTEx Consortium and an Ovarian Cancer Cohort | |
| 10/9/20 | MaryAnn Campion | Increasing Engagement and Inclusion: Lessons from the Genetic Counseling field | |
| 10/2/20 | Abbey Thompson | Genetics at The Tech Interactive: Informal education during a pandemic | |
| 10/2/20 | Theo Susanto | Rapid enrichment of ribosome-associated proteins across cell types, tissues, and species | |
| 9/18/20 | Anne Brunet | Single cell analysis of inflammation and immune cell infiltration in the aging brain | |
| 9/18/20 | Kevin Van Bortle | A switch in RNA polymerase III identity underlies dynamic transcription potential during cellular differentiation | |
| 8/21/20 | Akshay Sanghi | Addressing Racism in the STEM Training Pipeline by Boosting the Transition to Graduate School |
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| 8/21/20 | Sedona Murphy | Is chromatin structure functional? Understanding polycomb-mediated silencing at Hox genes | |
| 8/21/20 | Katelyn McKown | Divergent roles of stomatal identity gene FAMA in Arabidopsis and Brachypodium stomatal development | |
| 8/14/20 | Joseph Yracheta | Civil Engagement and Big Data Research Is Different in Native Nations. How Tribal Repositories Can Potentially Broker Vital Partnerships | |
| 7/31/20 | Nicholas Hughes | Scalable Cas12a-based Single Cell Barcoding using Machine Learning | |
| 7/31/20 | Kyomi Igarashi | Investigation of Species-Specific Cellular Processes During Development | |
| 7/31/20 | Olena Zhulyn | Rapid remodeling of the translatome underlies wound healing and regeneration | |
| 7/24/20 | Ben Siranosian | Transmission of pathogens in the microbiome of immunocompromised patients | |
| 7/24/20 | Gabe Rosenfield | Pre-Contact Non-Self Recognition in Neurospora crassa | |
| 7/24/20 | Miranda Stratton & Latishya Steele | Addressing Anti-Black Racism and Creating a Community Committed to Racial Justice | |
| 7/17/20 | Nicole Gay | Acute endurance exercise induces widespread transcriptional changes across tissues” | |
| 7/17/20 | Akshay Sanghi | A chromatin basis for protein-transcript correlation in human cancers | |
| 7/17/20 | Maryam Yousefi | Determining genetic drivers of oncogene-negative lung adenocarcinomas | |
| 7/10/20 | Adam Reeves | Chromatin Accessibility During Killifish Diapause: A Window into Regulatory Elements Controlling Function and Evolution. | |
| 7/10/20 | Yinnian Feng | Screening T cell-antigen interactions with BATTLES: new tales from new tools | |
| 6/26/20 | Jennifer Doherty | Genetic strategies to prevent the emergence of antiviral drug resistance | |
| 6/26/20 | Adele Xu | Functional characterization of ribosomal protein gene copies | |
| 6/19/20 | Rebecca Culver | Colons or semi-colons? Punctuating the composition, function, & dynamics of the gut microbiota | |
| 6/19/20 | Kelsey Fryer | Dissecting the role of non-coding RNAs at the centromere | |
| 6/5/20 | Alex Kern | Identifying Selection Affecting the Late Ergosterol Biosynthesis Pathway in Yeast | |
| 6/5/20 | Kévin Contrepois | Molecular Choreography of Acute Exercise | |
| 5/29/20 | Matthew Buckley | Single cell RNA-seq clocks quantify aging & rejuvenation strategies in the brain | |
| 5/29/20 | Stephanie Nevins | Profiling cellular and genetic heterogeneity in colorectal precancer | |
| 5/22/20 | Binbin Chen | Computationally identify potential SARS-CoV-2 epitopes and immune evasion | |
| 5/22/20 | Alex Colville | High-throughput approaches to dissect cellular senescence | |
| 5/15/20 | Ben Ober-Reynolds | Untangling alopecia with single-cell transcriptomics and chromatin accessibility” | |
| 5/15/20 | Laura Donohue | Leveraging genome-wide mapping of regulatory landscapes to identify combinatorial transcription factor modules in health and disease | |
| 5/8/20 | Robert Coukos | High-throughput investigation of protein proximity and protein-protein interaction with a light-gated transcriptional reporter | |
| 5/8/20 | Olivia Mae de Gode | Annotating long non-coding RNAs through gene expression pattern | |
| 5/1/20 | Alissa Severson | Population genetics of the Muwekma Ohlone: comparing ancient and modern sample | |
| 5/1/20 | Josh Tycko | High-throughput discovery and characterization of human transcriptional effector domains | |
| 4/24/20 | Aparna Rajpurkar | Leveraging deep learning to connect super-resolution DNA traces to transcription | |
| 4/24/20 | John Gorzynski | Genetic etiologies of fibrosing cardiomyopathy in great apes | |
| 4/17/20 | John Gorzynski | Genetic etiologies of fibrosing cardiomyopathy in great apes | |
| 4/17/20 | Ragini Phansalkar | Vascular development in the fetal human heart | |
| 4/10/20 | David Yao | Mapping enhancer-promoter interactions with phenotype-driven CRISPR screens | |
| 4/10/20 | Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong | GWAS of three molecular traits highlights core genes and pathways alongside a highly polygenic background | |
| 4/3/20 | Albert Hinman | VDSB-3 Cooperates with DSB-1 and DSB-2 to Promote Meiotic Double-Strand Break Formation | |
| 4/3/20 | Roy Ang | Investigating epistasis among genetic polymorphisms with single-nucleotide resolution | |
| 2/28/20 | Kristen Wells | Combined Transient Ablation and Single Cell RNA Sequencing Resolves Thymic Epithelial Cell Development | |
| 2/28/20 | Le Cong | Single-Cell Genetic Barcoding and Decoding to Probe Cancer Evolution | |
| 2/21/20 | Nathan Abell | Functional Consequences of Rare Genetic Variation on Gene Expression and Splicing in the GTEx Consortium | |
| 2/21/20 | Monther Abu-Remaileh | The emerging Roles of the Lysosome In Metabolic Homeostasis | |
| 1/24/20 | Wenyu Zhou | Defining Ageotypes for Personal Aging Assessment and Intervention | |
| 1/24/20 | Jesse Engreitz | Activity-by-Contact Model for Enhance-Promoter Regulation from thousands of CRISPR Perturbation | |
| 1/17/20 | Tyler Shimko | Building a Computational Toolkit to Expedite Protein Engineering | |
| 1/17/20 | Brayon Fremin | Studying Translation and Identifying Small Proteins in the Microbiome | |
| 12/13/19 | Nikki Teran | Making Sense of Nonsense: Interpreting Nonsense Mediated Decay Across Individuals and Tissues | |
| 12/13/19 | Mike Bassik | Development of new CRISPR/Cas9-based Tools to Identify Cancer Drug Targets and Mechanisms of Phagocytosis | |
| 12/6/19 | Siming Zhang | Integrated Analysis of Gene Expression, DNA Methylation and Chromatin Accessibility in Human Induced Neurons with the 15q13.3 Microdeletion | |
| 12/6/19 | Andrew Fire | What thy memory can contain: Adventure in the investigation of cellular memory | |
| 11/8/19 | Hannah De Jong | Deep mutational scanning to find cardiac disease gene variants | |
| 11/8/19 | Ami Bhatt | Monitoring Microbial Chatter | |
| 11/1/19 | Robin Yeo | Chromatin dynamics & cell migration changes during neural stem cell aging | |
| 11/1/19 | Mark Kay | Capsid engineering for enhanced gene transfer and genome engineering in humans” | |
| 8/10/19 | Albert Hinman | Genomes are made to be broken | |
| 8/10/19 | David Gennart | Identifying a Chromatin Signature of CAR T Cell Exhaustion | |
| 8/10/19 | Nikki Teran | Using Allele Specific Expression for Rare Disease Diagnostics | |
| 6/7/19 | Rui Tang | G-BaToN: a glowing cell interaction report system | |
| 6/7/19 | Qin Lin | Genetic Mapping of A-to-I RNA Editing in Human Tissues Links Population Variation and Autoimmune Diseases | |
| 5/31/19 | Roy Ang | Investigating genome-wide epistasis in single nucleotide variants across differentially adapted S. cerevisiae strains | |
| 5/31/19 | Massa Shoura | Chasing Genome Dynamics Through Time and Space | |
| 5/24/19 | Albert Hinman | The Role of DSB-3 in Promoting and Regulating Meiotic Double-Strand Break Formation | |
| 5/24/19 | Kyuho Han | Genome-wide CRISPR screens in lung cancer spheroids identify 3D growth specific cancer vulnerabilities | |
| 5/17/19 | Theo Susanto | Rapid enrichment of ribosome-associated proteins across cell types, tissues, and species | |
| 5/17/19 | Tao Sun | Cytoplasmic RNA editing is required to suppress MDA5-mediated dsRNA innate immunity | |
| 5/10/19 | Kristen Lynn Wells | Single cell sequencing defines immediate precursor of stable medullary thymic epithelial cell populations | |
| 5/10/19 | Nathan Samuel Abell | Resolving and Interpreting Highly Linked Non-Coding Genetic Associations in Humans | |
| 5/3/19 | Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong | The genetic basis of serum and urine laboratory tests | |
| 5/3/19 | Kotaro Fujii | Decoding the Function of Ribosome Tentacles | |
| 4/26/19 | Josh Gruber | HAT1 drives a gene-metabolite circuit at the center of chromatin | |
| 4/26/19 | Adam Wilkinson | Long-Term Ex Vivo Expansion Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells | |
| 4/12/19 | Brayon Fremin | Validation of structured RNAs in the human gut microbiome | |
| 4/12/19 | Tyler Shimko | Graph convolutional neural networks: a tool to understand and design molecular interactions | |
| 3/15/19 | Hannah De Jong | Predicting hypertrophic cardiomyopathy variants by high-throughput mutagenesis | |
| 3/15/19 | Siming Zhang | Molecular characterization of 15q13.3 microdeletion using an iPSC model | |
| 3/8/19 | Robin Yeo | The dynamic chromatin landscape of neural stem cell aging | |
| 3/8/19 | Jessica Ribado | Illuminating microbial dark matter using long read technologies | |
| 2/22/19 | Fiona Tamburini | Exploring the gut microbiome and cardiometabolic disease in two South African populations | |
| 2/22/19 | Euan Ashley | Better diagnosing rare genetic disease | |
| 2/15/19 | Evan Boyle | Coaxing coessential gene signal from pooled CRISPR knockout screens | |
| 2/15/19 | Kelly Ormond | RISPR in the news | |
| 2/8/19 | Eli Moss | Genomes from Metagenomes: New Tools for Complex Microbial Communities | |
| 2/8/19 | Michael Cherry | Something Old and Something New | |
| 2/1/19 | Kimberly Tsui | Systematic identification of regulators of antibody-drug conjugate internalization and intracellular trafficking using CRISPR-Cas9 screens | |
| 2/1/19 | Jonathan Pritchard | Trans eQTLs drive architecture of human complex traits | |
| 1/25/19 | Keyla Badillo | Current Issues in Preeclampsia and Population Genetics | |
| 1/25/19 | Minx Fuller | How to rapidly switch cell types: Developmentally regulated alternative 3’ end processing of nascent transcripts controls the menu of proteins expressed at consecutive steps during differentiation | |
| 1/25/19 | Keyla Badillo | Current Issues in Preeclampsia and Population Genetics | |
| 1/25/19 | Tang Hua | Harmonizing genetic ancestry & self-identified race/ethnicity in multi-ethnic biobanks | |
| 1/18/19 | Billy Li | ADAR RNA editing: innate immune evasion and transcriptome engineering | |
| 1/18/19 | Minx Fuller | How to rapidly switch cell types by alternative 3’ end processing of nascent transcripts | |
| 1/13/19 | Michael Sikora | Selecting and sequencing clonally expanded T cells | |
| 1/13/19 | Hiro Nakauchi | Xenogeneic barrier in interspecies chimera formation | |
| 12/7/18 | Han Sun | CDK-RAB fusion and activation in cancers | |
| 12/7/18 | Anshul Kundaje | Interpretable deep learning models of high-resolution transcription factor binding profiles (ChIP-nexus/exo) reveal the diversity of functional combinatorial cis-regulatory sequence grammars | |
| 11/9/18 | Matthew J. McCoy | The Role of Gene Complexity in the Evolution and Function of Nervous Systems | |
| 11/2/18 | Julien Sage | Generation and maintenance of intra-tumoral heterogeneity in SCLC | |
| 11/2/18 | Alistair Boettiger | Visualizing DNA folding and transcription in embryogenesis | |
| 10/5/18 | Karla Kirkegaard | Dominance, Drugs and Viruses | |
| 9/28/18 | Arend Sidow | The magic of diploid genome reconstruction for detection of structural variation | |
| 9/28/18 | Phillip Cleves | Using Transcriptomics and Reverse Genetics to Understand Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis | |
| 8/3/18 | Roy Ang | From barrel to bedside: Investigating genome-wide epistasis in single nucleotide variants across differentially adapted S. cerevisiae strains | |
| 8/3/18 | Nathan Abell | Characterizing Regulatory Genetic Variation by Massively Parallel Reporter Assay Across the Allele Frequency Spectrum | |
| 7/20/18 | Kristen Wells | Single cell sequencing informs stages of thymic cell development | |
| 7/20/18 | Cameron Prybol | Regulating the Ca-dependent genetic etiology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | |
| 7/13/18 | Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong | USF1 modulates chronotype and consolidates sleep | |
| 7/13/18 | Tyler Shimko | Biophysical measurements inform structure- function models of Transcription factor binding specificities |