Course Description
Please join us for this free webinar series where FAES faculty expand on topics they teach in their FAES courses. please note you will receive the Teams link to join the webinar at 11:15am the day of the event. You will have to register with Teams to join.
FAES Educational Webinar Series: What You Can Discover with Single-Cell Sequencing: A Field Guide to scRNA-seq Applications
July 22, 2026 from 12 - 12:30PM ET
Location: Line Online (Teams)
Speaker: Rajee Ganesan, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University (BIOF 555, BIOF 556)
Single-cell RNA sequencing has revolutionized the study of genomics. Here, we discuss just a few applications of scRNA-seq downstream analysis, ranging from identifying cell-type-specific gene expression to uncovering regulatory evolution across species. We'll show how to use the bioinformatics pipeline established in BIOF 555/556 as the foundation for answering large-scale biological questions. Whether you're interested in disease, development, or evolution, learn how to turn single-cell datasets into meaningful biological insights!
Rajee Ganesan is a Biological Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Pfenning lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Her thesis studies vocal learning at a computational level, specifically enhancer evolution and comparative genomics across mammalian and avian clades. Rajee received her Bachelor’s Degree from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. She has served as a teaching assistant and instructor for BIOF 555 and BIOF 556, the FAES course series on Single Cell Sequencing, for three years.
Click here to view an archive of our past webinars, many with full recordings.
Join FAES for the Following Upcoming Events:
FAES Science Insight Series: From Snapshots to Signals: Using AI to Personalize Addiction Care
August 6, 2026 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Brenda Curtis, Ph.D., Chief, Technology and Translational Research Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Addiction risk changes between clinic visits, but care systems often detect relapse, craving, and treatment disengagement only after they occur. This talk explores how artificial intelligence, digital phenotyping, smartphone sensing, and language analysis can help identify changing risk states earlier and support more timely, personalized, and ethically bounded addiction care.
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FAES Science Insight Series: Sex Differences in Brain Aging and Disease
September 3, 2026 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Alex DeCasien, Ph.D., Principal Investigator and Head of the Computational and Evolutionary Neurogenomics Unit at the National Institute on Aging (NIA)
This talk will explore sex differences in brain aging and neurodegenerative disease, focusing on how sex chromosomes and sex hormones change across the human lifespan. Drawing on genomic, transcriptomic, and hormonal studies, we will discuss how these biological factors influence brain health, disease risk, and resilience, highlighting implications for precision medicine and therapeutic development.
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Virtual Information Session: FAES Fall Session B Programming
October 1, 2026 from 12 – 12:30PM ET
Location: Online Synchronous
Join the FAES Academic Programs Team to learn more about our fall courses, workshops, and our scholarship program.
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The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) at NIH seeks to foster education and research in the biomedical sciences by providing instruction at the cutting edge of biological science and its evolving applications. Our goals also include responding to the educational and cultural needs of the NIH community and projecting FAES educational assets globally. All courses and workshops are open to the public. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS FAES admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin, sex, disability, or age in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship programs, and other school-administered programs.
