Latest Past Events

Everything is Connected. Unfortunately.

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday September 17th at 4:00PM Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Kresge G3 John Quackenbush, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago Member, National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology Professor Emeritus, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of […]

From Kentucky to Boston and Back: Memories, Mentorship, and the Many Pathologies of Dementia

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

The Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award HSPH, FXB 301 David Fardo, PhD, Stephen W. Wyatt Endowed Professor of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Affiliate Faculty in the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are defined by cognitive decline, but the biology underlying the decline is remarkably complex. Multiple neuropathologies commonly […]

When More isn’t Better: A Lesson from Rethinking Scale in Single-cell Foundation Models

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health 677 Huntington Ave, Boston

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday October 8th at 4:00PM Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB 301 Lorin Crawford, PhD, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Co-Lead Project Ex Vivo https://hsph.harvard.edu/department/biostatistics/seminars-events/colloquium-seminar-series/   The success of transformer-based foundation models on natural language and images has motivated their use in single-cell transcriptomics. In this talk, […]