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Biostatistics Branch Seminar Series

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

Biostatistics Branch Seminar Topics and Schedules – Present to 2016 
Principal component analysis for zero-inflated compositional data
Date and Time: Wednesday, August 14th, 2024
1:30- 2:30pm 
3E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Sungkyu Jung, PhD

Professor of Statistics
Director of the Institute for Data Innovation in Science
Seoul National Univerity

Kriging Using James-Stein Estimators which Contract to Subspaces
Date and Time: Wednesday, June 5th, 2024
10:30-11:30am 
6E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Samuel D. Oman, PhD

Professor
Department of Statistics
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Cumulative Incidence Function Estimation Based on EMR Data
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
10:30-11:30am 
6E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Malka Gorfine, PhD

Professor of Statistics
School of Mathematical Sciences
Tel Aviv University

Robust Mendelian Randomization coupled with Alphafold2 for drug target discovery
Date and Time: Friday, March 8th, 2024
10:30-11:30am 
6E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Zhonghua Liu, ScD

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on Brain Ageing: A New Causal Inference Framework for Incomplete and Massive Phenomic Data
Date and Time: Wednesday March 6th, 2024
10:30-11:30am 
6E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Chixiang Chen, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor in Biostatistics
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Conformal prediction intervals and predictive distributions
Date and Time: Wednesday February 21st, 2024
10:30-11:30am 
7E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Jin Qin, PhD

Mathematical Statistician
Biostatistics Research Branch
Division of Clinical Research
National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases/p>

Reconciling model-based and design-based optimal subsample choices in two-phase studies
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
10:30-11:30am 
7E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Thomas Lumley, PhD
Affiliate Professor at University of Washington

Professor & Chair in Biostatistics
University of Auckland

Mission Imputable: Correcting for Error When Imputing a Censored Covariate
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
10:30-11:30am 
6E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Tanya P. Garcia, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
Gillings School of Public Health
UNC Chapel Hill

 

Sequential competing risks regression model for recurrent event data with terminal events
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
10:30-11:30am 
6E032/34 WebEx
Lecturer:

Anna Bellach, PhD
Mathematical Statistician
Office of Biostatistics Research
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institutes of Health

Network Models for Developmental Biology and Personalized Cancer Therapy
Date and Time: Wednesday, September 13th, 2023
10:30-11:30am
7E032/34 & WebEx
Lecturer:

Benedict Anchang, MSc, PhD
Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator
Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health

TBD
Date and Time: Postponed
TBD
WebEx
Lecturer:

Sebastien Haneuse, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Combining Information from Multiple Data Sources to Assess Race-Ethnic Health Disparities
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023
10:30-11:30am
Zoom
Lecturer:

Trivellore E Raghunathan (Raghu), PhD
Professor of Biostatistics & Director of Research
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Multivariate Interval-Censored Events
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023
10:30-11:30am
Zoom
Lecturer:

Donglin Zeng, PhD
Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Gillings School of Global Public Health
University of North Carolina

A statistical tour on metabolomics in cancer epidemiology
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Vivian Viallon, PhD
Co-Leader
Biostatistics and Data Integration Team
Nutrition and Metabolism Branch
IARC-WHO

Cross-sectional data, epidemic dynamics and beyond
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
10:30-11:30am
Webex / 5E032/34
Lecturer:

Mei-Cheng Wang, PhD
Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Deciphering cancer cell evolution and ecology
Date and Time: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
10:30-11:30am
ZoomGov
Lecturer:

Wenyi Wang, PhD
Professor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Department of Biostatistics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Statistical methods for cross-population prediction of complex traits
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Hongyu Zhao, PhD
Ira V. Hiscock Professor of Biostatistics
Professor of Genetics
Professor of Statistics and Data Science
Yale University

Mixture model approaches to address disparities in cancer care
Date and Time: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
10:30-11:30am
ZoomGov
Lecturer:

Briana Stephenson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Do clinical prediction models perpetuate health disparities? Assessment of racial and ethnic disparities in suicide prediction models
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Yates Coley, PhD
Associate Investigator
Biostatistics Unit
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

New methods for spatial causal inference
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Brian Reich, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Statistics
North Carolina State University

Measuring spatial access to community amenities and its association with health
Date and Time: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Brisa N. Sanchez, PhD
Dornsife Endowed Professor of Biostatistics
Drexel University

Aging, Frailty, Resilience, and Cancer: Can Gerontology Benefit Oncology?
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Ravi Varadhan, PhD
Professor of Oncology
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins University

Developing an exposure burden score for chemical mixtures using item response theory: Applications to PFAS mixtures and phthalate mixtures
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Shelley H. Liu, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for Biostatistics
Department of Population Health Science and Policy
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Challenges in Biobank-scale Imaging Genetics and Beyond
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Hongtu Zhu, PhD
Professor
Department of Biostatistics
The University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Public Health

An integrated genomic definition and therapeutic strategy for heterogeneous tumors
Date and Time: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Wenyi Wang, PhD
Professor
Dept of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Department of Biostatistics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Estimating the Cumulative Risk of Screening Mammography Outcomes
Date and Time: Wednesday, July 28th, 2021
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Diana L. Miglioretti, PhD
Professor
Division Chief of Biostatistics
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of California, Davis

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Cynthia Rudin, PhD
Professor of Computer Science
Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistical Science
Duke University

Statistical Analysis of Large-Scale Microbiome Profiling Studies: Batch Effects and Robust Testing
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Michael C. Wu, PhD
Associate Professor
Public Health Sciences Division
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Knockoff Boosted Trees for Model-Free Variable Selection
Date and Time: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Alison Motsinger-Reif, PhD
Branch Chief & Senior Investigator
Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH

Joint Fairness Model with Applications to Risk Predictions for Under-represented Populations
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Judy Zong, PhD
Associate Professor & Director
Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design Program (BERD)
New York University - Langone, Clinical and Translational Science Institute

Topical Statistical Issues in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Dean Follmann, PhD
Chief
Biostatistics Research Branch
Division of Clinical Research
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH

Defining and addressing dependent observation schemes in life history studies
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 6th, 2021
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Richard Cook, PhD
Professor of Statistics
Dept of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Waterloo

Relative, net and cause-specific survival
Date and Time: Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
10:30-11:30am
Webex
Lecturer:

Peter Sasieni, PhD
Professor of Cancer Prevention
Academic Director of Kings Clinical Trials Unit
Director, Cancer Research UK &
Kings College London Cancer Prevention Trials Unit
Vice Director: NIHR Policy Research Unit
Cancer Awareness, Screening & Early Diagnosis

Thinking causally in high dimensions
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
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