FAES Educational Webinar Series: What You Can Discover with Single-Cell Sequencing, A Field Guide to scRNA-seq Applications

This event will be held virtually on July 22nd, 2026 12:00 p.m. - 12:30p.m.

In this free webinar series FAES faculty expand on topics they teach in their FAES courses.

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.

Single-cell RNA sequencing has revolutionized the study of genomics. Here, we will discuss applications of scRNA-seq downstream analysis, ranging from identifying cell-type-specific gene expression to uncovering regulatory evolution across species. We will show how to use the bioinformatics pipeline established in BIOF 555/BIOF 556 as the foundation for answering large-scale biological questions.

Whether you are interested in disease, development, or evolution, come learn how to turn single-cell datasets into meaningful biological insights!

For any questions, please contact Candace Tuohey at [email protected]