• 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, MA

    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, […]

  • 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, MA

    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 […]