JHU EN.600.749: Computational Genomics: Applied Comparative Genomics

April 15, 2021 · View on GitHub

Project Presentations

Presentations will be a total of 15 minutes: 12 minutes for the presentation, followed by 3 minutes for questions. We will strictly keep to the schedule to ensure that all groups can present in class!

Schedule of Presentations

DayTime    Team Name        Students                               Title
Wed Apr 211:30-1:45Team T-CellHanzhi (Gary) Wang, Sihao (Lynn) YinSequence-Base Prediction of Cross-Reactivity in T Cell agaisnt SARS-COV2 Epitopes
Wed Apr 211:45-2:00deMarKateMargaret Starostik, Katharine JenikeIdentifying RNA modifications in direct RNA sequencing data from Oxford Nanopore
Wed Apr 212:00-2:15Daniel's TeamDaniel BordersCannabis Project
Wed Apr 212:15-2:30Team BlakeBlake JohnsonscCNV from scRNA
Wed Apr 212:30-2:45Team OmarOmar AhmedDeveloping a Realistic Nanopore Signal Simulator Using a Generative Adversarial Network
Mon Apr 261:30-1:45The Contextusplicer(s)Theron PalmerSingle-cell alternative splicing analysis using non-negative matrix factorization and differentially expressed splice junctions.
Mon Apr 261:45-2:00The Genome PalsJames Forsmo, Soichiro AsamiEvaluation of Single-Cell Monocle Algorithm with Low Read Coverage
Mon Apr 262:00-2:15SINSambit Panda, Ida Shinder, Natalia RinconUncovering the Origin of Polyploidy in Coast Redwood
Mon Apr 262:15-2:30Team AmyAmy GillVariant analysis of a whole exome trio to investigate a heritable neurological phenotype
Mon Apr 262:30-2:45Team YanboYanbo WangPacBio single-molecule flouorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) analysis pipeline
Wed Apr 281:30-1:45Team MalamutesBeril Erdogdu, Yuchen GeCalling genetic variants from long-read RNA sequencing of SK-BR-3 breast cancer cell line
Wed Apr 281:45-2:00Team BohaoBohao TangRobustness of Single Cell Pseudo-time Reconstruction Methods
Wed Apr 282:00-2:15Team YashYash SonthaliaApplying ML classification models to accurately predict cell-type among datasets using expression data from single-cell RNA seq experiments
Wed Apr 282:15-2:30Team MaddyMaddy ScottEntropy of DNA
Wed Apr 282:30-2:45Team KathleenKathleen NewcomerGenomic Vis


  1. Title Slide: Who are you, title, date
  2. Intro 1: Whats the big idea???
  3. Intro 2: More specifically, what are you trying to learn?
  4. Methods 1: What did you try?
  5. Methods 2: What is the key idea?
  6. Data 1: What data are you looking at?
  7. Data 2: Anything notable about the data?
  8. Results 1: What did you see!
  9. Results 2: Does it work?
  10. Results 3: How does it compare to other methods/data/ideas?
  11. Discussion 1: What did you learn from this study?
  12. Discussion 2: What does this mean for the future?
  13. Acknowledgements: Who helped you along the way?
  14. Thank you!

I strongly discourage you from trying to give a live demo as they are too unpredictable for a short talk. If you have running software you want to show, use a "cooking show" approach, where you have screen shots of the important steps.