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BCB Student Seminar Series via Zoom   Thursday, September 24 at 10am   This Week’s Presenters: Mike Lafferty Jason Stein Lab Genetic variants regulating microRNA expression in the developing human neocortex   Eric Davis Doug Phanstiel Lab 3D Chromatin Structure and Disease

BCB Student Seminar Series via Zoom   Thursday, October 1 at 10am   This Week’s Presenters: Dayne Filer Kirk Wilhelmsen Lab A novel algorithm for detecting copy-number variation from pools of simultaneously-captured exomes   Hang Su Leonard McMillan Lab Collaborative Cross Graphical Genome

BCB Curriculum Student Defense Yanwei Cai Student of Will Valdar Analysis of Genetic and Gene-by-Treatment Effects in the Collaborative Cross mice Wednesday, October 7, 2020 at 9am Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. This student defense will be broadcast via Zoom. Link will be provided through UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology emails. Contact jcornett@email.unc.edu for meeting link if you have not received. Links will be provided to UNC affiliated email…

BCB Student Seminar Series via Zoom   Thursday, October 8 at 10am   This Week’s Presenters: Ian Seim Amy Gladfelter and Daphne Klotsa Labs The role of a hidden structured domain in controlling phase behavior of polyQ protein-RNA condensates   Siyao Liu Charles Perou and Steve Marron Labs Inferring Optimal Cluster Numbers in Single Cell RNA-seq Data   Lance Jubic Jeff Dangl Lab The NRG1 family’s regulation of ADR1 function   Contact Curriculum Administrator John Cornett for Zoom access.

BCB Student Seminar Series via Zoom   Thursday, October 15 at 10am   This Week’s Presenters: Michael Kelly Hector Franco and Joel Parker Labs Leveraging multi-source data to identify putative oncogenic regulatory elements in ovarian cancer patients   Andrew Hinton Wesley Burks and Peter Mucha Labs Multivariate hypothesis testing in the setting of sparse compositional data using low dimensional projections under supervised feature selection   Lauren Donoghue Samir Kelada Lab Identifying regulators of asthma-related traits using quantitative genetic approaches in…

BCB Student Seminar Series via Zoom Thursday, October 22 at 10am This Week’s Presenters: Cody Herron Tim Elston & Klaus Hahn Labs Modeling and Quantification of ‘Punctated-Ring’ Formation During Frustrated Phagocytosis   Joey Foster Ian Davis & Joel Parker Labs Chromatin influences on targeted therapy in TNBC   Nate Diehl Channing Der Lab Integrating transcriptomics and proteomics to understand vertical MAPK inhibition in pancreatic cancer

BCB Student Seminar Series via Zoom   Thursday, October 29 at 10am   This Week’s Presenters: Nick Colaianni Jeff Dangl and Corbin Jones Labs A Complex Immune Response to Flagellin Epitope Variation in Commensal Communities   Jamshaid Shahir Jeremy Purvis Lab Single-cell modeling of the cell cycle using iterative indirect immunofluorescence imaging   Jolene Ranek Jeremy Purvis Lab Single-cell trajectory analysis of definitive endoderm differentiation

BCB Student Seminar Series via Zoom   Thursday, November 5 at 10am   This Week’s Presenters: Nicole Kramer Doug Phanstiel Lab A New Paradigm for Multifigure, Coordinate-Based Plotting in R   Brandon Le Jason Stein Lab Stimulus-specific modulation of Wnt signaling and proliferation by common genetic variants in primary human neural progenitor cells   Josh Hochuli Alexander Tropsha Lab Investigating the relationship between bariatric surgery and type 2 diabetes