Biostatistics Branch Seminar Series

The Biostatistics Branch (BB) hosts an ongoing seminar series.

Biostatistics Branch Seminar Topics and Schedules – Present to 2016
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Date and Time:	Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 10:30-11:30am Webex
Lecturer:	Debashis Ghosh PhD Professor and Chair Department of Biostatistics and Informatics Colorado School of Public Health University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Insights into Genetic Mosaicism Through the Lens of Statistical Phasing
Date and Time:	Wednesday, September 9th, 2020 10:30-11:30am Webex
Lecturer:	Po-Ru Loh, PhD Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School
Statistical Methods for Spatiotemporal Modeling and Improving Estimation in Two-phase Studies
Date and Time:	Monday, April 6th, 2020 10:30-11:30am 2E0908
Lecturer:	Yei-Eun Shin, PhD Research Fellow Biostatistics Branch DCEG, NCI
Feature selection with survival outcome data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, April 1st, 2020 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Hyokyoung (Grace) Hong, PhD Associate Professor Department of Statistics and Probability Michigan State University
Methods for population health with limited data
Date and Time:	Tuesday, March 31st, 2020 10:30-11:30am 2E908
Lecturer:	Zehang Richard Li, PhD PhD Post-Doctoral Associate Department of Biostatistics Yale University
Estimating Somatic Variant Richness & Using the "Hidden" Genome to Improve Classification of Cancer Types
Date and Time:	Tuesday, March 10th, 2020 10:30-11:30am 2W032/34
Lecturer:	Saptarshi Chakraboty, PhD Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Methods for Clinical Decision-Making: Risk Models with Polygenic Risk Scores
Date and Time:	Monday, March 9th, 2020 10:00-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Allison Meisner, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University
Various usage of influence functions for complicated statistics in the context of survey sampling
Date and Time:	Friday, March 6th, 2020 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Jihnhee Yu, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics SUNY at Buffalo
Next Generation Statistical Methods in the Post- Genome Wide Association Studies
Date and Time:	Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Nilanjan Chatterjee, PhD Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Department of Biostatistics Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Oncology School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University
Statistically Consistent Saliency Estimation
Date and Time:	Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Emre Barut, PhD Assistant Professor of Statistics George Washington University
Comparing Alternatives for Estimation from Nonprobability Samples
Date and Time:	Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020 1:30-2:30pm 1E032/34
Lecturer:	Richard Valliant, PhD Research Professor Emeritus Universities of Michigan & Maryland
Measuring the mortality reductions produced by organized cancer screening: a principled approach
Date and Time:	Tuesday, January 14th, 2020 3:00-4:00pm 6E032/34
Lecturer:	James Hanley, PhD Department of Biostatistics and Occupational Health McGill University
Analysis of Extreme Conditional Quantiles
Date and Time:	Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Judy Huixia Wang, PhD Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics, at George Washington University Division of Mathematical Sciences, at National Science Foundation
Modern Genetic Analyses on The Cloud
Date and Time:	Tuesday, December 10th, 2019 10:30-11:30am 2W032/34
Lecturer:	Stephen W. Hartley, PhD Staff Scientist Human Genetics Program Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, NCI
Harnessing rare somatic variants for tumor classification
Date and Time:	Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Ronglai Shen, PhD Associate Member Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Novel statistical approach to handle limit of detection in environmental mixture analysis
Date and Time:	Wednesday, November 6th, 2019 10:30-11:30am 3E032/34
Lecturer:	Shanshan Zhao, PhD Principal Investigator Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Biostatistical Methods for Wearable and Implantable Technology (WIT)
Date and Time:	Tuesday, September 10th, 2019 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Ciprian Crainiceanu, PhD Professor Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University
Medical and systemic analysis of nation-wide claims data
Date and Time:	Tuesday, September 3rd, 2019 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Stefan Thurner, PhD Professor Medical University of Vienna & Complexity Science Hub Vienna
Lung screening economics: from resource utilization to research utilization
Date and Time:	Wednesday, June 26, 2019 10:00-11:30am 3E032/34
Lecturer:	Sonya Cressman Health Economist British Columbia Cancer Agency
Personalized Treatment Plans with Multivariate Outcome Measures
Date and Time:	Wednesday, June 12, 2019 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Somnath Datta, PhD Professor Department of Biostatistics University of Florida
Computationally-Efficient Framework for Inferring the Evolutionary History of a Tumor Given Single-Cell Sequencing Data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, June 5, 2019 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Julia Chifman, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics American University
Use of Bayesian Non-Parametrics for Problems in Causal Inference
Date and Time:	Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Mike Daniels, PhD Professor Department of Statistics & Andrew Banks Family Endowed Chair University of Florida
Assessing and utilizing reproducibility of high-throughput experiments
Date and Time:	Wednesday, May 1st, 2019 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Qunhua Li, PhD Associate Professor Department of Statistics Penn State University
Incorporating American Community Survey Uncertainty into Disease Mapping Models
Date and Time:	Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Lance Waller, PhD Professor Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Rollins School of Public Health Emory University
Some proposals for aggregate & individualized cost-effectiveness analysis
Date and Time:	Monday, April 1st, 2019 10:30-11:30am 1E032/34
Lecturer:	Aryana Arsham, PhD Candidate Statistician University of Maryland Baltimore County
Development of an International Prostate Cancer Risk Tool integrating data from multiple heterogeneous cohorts
Date and Time:	Thursday, March 21st, 2019 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Donna Ankerst, PhD Department of Mathematics Technical University of Munich
Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves in their Natural Habitats
Date and Time:	Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Albert Vexler, PhD Professor Department of Biostatistics School of Public Health State University of New York at Buffalo
Ranking and regression calibration: methods to address bias induced from correlated covariate and time-to-event error
Date and Time:	Wednesday, November 7th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Pamela Shaw, PhD Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania Perlman School of Medicine
Causal inference with high dimensional confounders
Date and Time:	Friday, September 28th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Andrea Rotnizky, PhD Professor of Statistics Universidad Torcuato di Tella Principle Investigator CONICET Argentina Adjunct Professor Harvard School of Public Health Boston MA
Mutlistate modeling of dependent disease, selection and observation processes in health research
Date and Time:	Tuesday, September 19th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Richard Cook, PhD Professor, Canada Research Chair Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science Facutly of Mathematics University of Waterloo
Harnessing genetic interactions to advance whole genome precision cancer treatment
Date and Time:	Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Eytan Ruppin, MD, PhD Cheif Cancer Data Science Lab (CDSL) National Cancer Institute, NIH
Cost-efficient Analysis of Survival Data under the Proportional Hazards model with Pooled Covariates
Date and Time:	Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Paramita Chaudhuri, PhD Cheif Associate Professor, Biostatistics Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health McGill University
Generalized Group Testing: Some Results and Open Problems
Date and Time:	Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Yaakov Malinovsky, PhD Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Maryland
Statistical and Computational Analysis Tools for Massive Genomic Data
Date and Time:	Monday, August 6th, 2018 10:00-11:00am TE408/410
Lecturer:	Xiuwen Zheng, PhD Senior Research Fellow Department of Biostatistics University of Washington
CISNET: NCIs Consortium for Population Modeling to Guide Public Health Research and Priorities
Date and Time:	Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Eric (Rocky) Feuer, PhD Chief Statistical Research and Applications Branch Surveillance Research Program, DCCPS< br/> NCI Project Scientist - CISNET
Statistical methods for testing carryover effects
Date and Time:	Friday, June 29th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 4E032/34
Lecturer:	Gwynn Sturdevant, PhD Professor Post-Doctoral Fellow University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Shared and Study Specific Dietary Patterns and Their Association with Head and Neck Cancer Risk
Date and Time:	Friday, June 15th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Valeria Edefonti, PhD Professor Department of Clinical & Community Sciences Laboratory of Medical Sciences Milan University
The Latent Scale Covariogram: A Tool for Exploring the Spatial Dependence Structure of Non-Normal Responses
Date and Time:	Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Samuel D. Oman, PhD Professor Department of Statistics Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Methods for Identifying Etiologically Distinct Sub-Types of Cancers
Date and Time:	Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Colin B. Begg, PhD Chairman Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Causal Inference on Quantiles
Date and Time:	Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Mike Daniels, PhD Professor and Chair Andrew Banks Family Endowed Chai Department of Statistics University of Florida
Evaluating Diagnostic Tests for Clinical Utility in Ruling In or Ruling Out Disease
Date and Time:	Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Gene Pennello, PhD Diagnostic Statistics Branch II, Division of Biostatistics Office of Surveillance and Biometrics Center for Devices and Radiological Health US Food and Drug Administration
Expression Recovery in Single Cell RNA Sequencing
Date and Time:	Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Nancy Zhang, PhD Associate Professor of Statistics The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania
Analysis of Linear Transformation Models with Covariate Measurement Error and Interval Censoring
Date and Time:	Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Soutrik Mandal PhD Student Texas A&M University
On the construction of unbiased estimators for the group testing problem
Date and Time:	Wednesday, January 10th, 2018 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Greg Haber, MS University of Maryland Baltimore County
Challenges and Opportunities for Analysis of Massive Data from Genome, Exposome, and Phenome
Date and Time:	Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Xihong Lin, PhD Department of Biostatistics and Statistics Harvard University
Statistical Methods for Studying Disease Etiologic Heterogeneity
Date and Time:	Thursday, October 19th, 2017 10:30-11:30am TE406
Lecturer:	Molin Wang, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Harvard Medical School
From Genetics to CRISPR Gene Editing with Machine Learning
Date and Time:	Thursday, September 28th, 2017 2:00-3:00pm 3W032/34
Lecturer:	Jennifer Listgarten, PhD Senior Researcher Microsoft Reserch Lab
An Imputation-Consistency Algorithm for Biomedical Complex Data Analysis
Date and Time:	Friday, August 25th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Faming Liang, PhD Professor of Statistics Purdue University
Linking microbiome composition with phenotype: the variable selection problem in microbiome data analysis
Date and Time:	Tuesday, August 8th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Diego Tomassi, PhD Professor Department of Mathematics Facultad de Ingenieria Quimica Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Nested Group Testing Procedures and Generalized GT Problem
Date and Time:	Monday, August 7th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 4E032/34
Lecturer:	Yaakov Malinvosky, PhD Associate Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Maryland, Baltimore
Statistical and Computational Approaches for Metagenomics Data Analysis
Date and Time:	Monday, July 17th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Fengzhu Sun, PhD Professor Molecular and Computational Biology & Mathematics University of Southern California
Optimal screening schedules for disease progression with applications to diabetic
Date and Time:	Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 2E032/34
Lecturer:	Ionut Bebu, PhD The Biostatistics Center Milken School of Public Health The George Washington University
What level of cervical screening is appropriate for women vaccinated against HPV? A microsimulation study
Date and Time:	Thursday, June 29th, 2017 3:00-4:00pm 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Rebecca Landy, PhD Statistician Centre for Cancer Prevention Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry Queen Mary University of London
Fractional imputation for handling missing data in survey sampling
Date and Time:	Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Jae-Kwang Kim, PhD Chief Professor of Statistics Iowa State University
Analysis of germline variants in cancer in the Laboratory of Translational Genetics (LTG)
Date and Time:	Wednesday, June 14th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Michael Dean, PhD Chief Laboratory of Translational Genetics DCEG, NCI, NIH
Regression Analysis of Informatively Interval-censored Failure Time Data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, May 10th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Tony Jianguo Sun, PhD Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics University of Missouri
Analysis of asynchronous longitudinal data with partially linear models
Date and Time:	Friday, April 21, 2017 10:30-11:30am 2W910/912
Lecturer:	Hongyuan Cao, PhD Assistant Professor Statistics University of Missouri
Challenges and Methods in Biomarker Combination for Risk Prediction with Application to a Fetal Growth Study
Date and Time:	Monday, April 17th, 2017 10:30-11:30am TE/406
Lecturer:	Danping Liu, Ph.D. Investigator Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Branch National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Methods for evaluating the time-varying prognostic performance of survival models
Date and Time:	Monday, April 3rd, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Jason Liang, Ph.D. Investigator National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<\br>National Institutes of Health
Bayesian regression for group testing data
Date and Time:	Thursday, March 30th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Joshua M. Tebbs, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Statistics University of South Carolina
Principal Component Analysis for Vector Time Series
Date and Time:	Tuesday, March 21st, 2017 10:30-11:30am 4W032/34
Lecturer:	Qiwei Yao, Ph.D. Professor of Statistics London School of Economics
Enhanced statistical models, visualization, and data collection for precision cancer risk prediction
Date and Time:	Friday, March, 17th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Donna Ankerst, Ph.D. Department of Mathematics Technical University of Munich and Department of Urology UT Health, San Antonio
The interplay of somatic copy number aberration, DNA methylation, and gene expression
Date and Time:	Thursday, March, 16th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Wei Sun, Ph.D. Associate Member Biostatistics & Bioinformatics / Public Health Sciences Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center & Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics University of North Carolina Gillings School of Public Health
Concordant integrative analysis of multiple two-sample genome-wide expression data sets
Date and Time:	Tuesday, February 14th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Yinglei Lai, Ph.D. Professor of Statistics The George Washington University
Big Data Analysis with application to Vaccine-Adverse Event Data
Date and Time:	Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	J. Jian-Jian Ren, Ph.D. Professor of Statistics University of Maryland College Park
Big Data Integration in Biomedical Studies
Date and Time:	Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Hongtu Zu, Ph.D. Professor of Biostatistics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Statistical Methods for Microbiome Data Analysis
Date and Time:	Tuesday, December 13th, 2016 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Jun Chen, Ph.D. Professor Mayo Clinic Rochester, NY
High-dimensional Multivariate Mediation with Application to Neuroimaging Data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Martin Lindquist, Ph.D. Professort Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University
Improving the robustness of doubly robust estimators in missing data analysis
Date and Time:	Wednesday, October 12th, 2016 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Peisong Han, Ph.D. Assistant Professort Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Waterloo
New Methods for Analyzing Data from 16S rRNA Microbiome Studies
Date and Time:	Tuesday, May 24th, 2016 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Glen Satten, Ph.D. Adjunct Professort School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics Emory University
Evaluating Biomarkers for Guiding Treatment
Date and Time:	Tuesday, May 17th, 2016 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Holly Janes, Ph.D. Associate Member Vaccine & Infectious Disease / Public Health Sciences Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Graduate Faculty, Biostatistics University of Washington
General regression model for competing risks- and recurrent event cancer data subject to competing terminal events
Date and Time:	Monday, May 16th, 2016 10:30-11:30am 5E032/34
Lecturer:	Anna Bellach. PhD Candidate Department of Public Health, Biostatistics University of Copenhagen
Biomarker assessment and combination with differential covariate effects and an unknown gold standard
Date and Time:	Wednesday, May 11th, 2016 10:30-11:30am 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Zheyu Wang, Ph.D. Assistant Professort Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
A Multivariate Distance Based Test on Microbial Interdependence Non-parametric Test (MINT)
Date and Time:	Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 10:30-11:30am 7E032/34
Lecturer:	Yilong Zhang, MS PhD Candidate New York University
Methodological advances in the analysis of genetic data
Date and Time:	Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Benjamin Neale, PhD Psychiatric & Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute
Construction, Characterization and Validation of Multiscale Gene Networks in Complex Human Diseases
Date and Time:	Friday, February 19th, 2016 6E032/34
Lecturer:	Bin Zhang, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Ican School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Using Nonlocal Priors for Variable Selection in Generalized Linear Models
Date and Time:	Thursday, January 21st, 2016 4E032/34
Lecturer:	Ho-Hsiang Wu, MA PhD Candidate, Statistics University of Missouri