• Data Integration in Statistical Inference and Risk Prediction

    Joint Seminar with Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Thursday April 11, 2024 @ 4pm ET FXB Building Room 301 Yu Shen PhD Conversation with a Living Legend Professor & Chair ad interim Department of Biostatistics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In comparative effectiveness research and risk prediction for rare types […]

  • Cancer Risk Prediction, Early Detection and Minimal Residual Disease

    Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday May 7, 2024 @ 1pm ET In-person and Zoom available. Cristian Tomasetti, Ph.D. Director, Center for Cancer Prevention and Early Detection, City of Hope Professor and Director, Division of Mathematics for Cancer Evolution and Early Detection, Department of Computational & Quantitative Medicine, City of Hope

  • Challenges of Producing High-Quality Labelled Data

    Tuesday, August 13 @ 1:00PM Eastern Time Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th floor, room 11081 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston Peter Lipman Technical Lead & Manager Data Science & Human Computation, Google Zoom: https://bit.ly/plipman

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  • Hierarchical Causal Models

    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series Thursday September 12, 2024 4:00-5:00PM HSPH FXB Building Room 301 David Blei, PhD Professor of Statistics and Computer Science Columbia University Analyzing nested data with hierarchical models is a staple of Bayesian statistics, but causal modeling remains largely focused on "flat" models. In this talk, we will […]

  • Inference for Treatment-Specific Survival Curves using Machine Learning

    HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series Thursday September 19, 2024 4:00-5:00PM HSPH FXB Building Room 313 Ted Westling, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst In the absence of data from a randomized trial, researchers often aim to use observational data to draw causal inference about the effect of a treatment […]

  • Empirical Bayes Matrix Factorization, and Genomic Applications

    Data Science Seminar Friday, October 18, 3:00 PM ET Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th Floor Matthew Stephens, PhD Chair, Department of Statistics; Ralph W. Gerard Professor of Statistics, Human Genetics, University of Chicago

  • Targeting CARM1 in Dendritic Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy

    Compbio Connections October 23rd, 12:00 -1:00 PM ET Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th floor, Zelen Commons Xixi Zhang, PhD Research Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Lunch is provided.

  • Harnessing Bioinformatics for Cancer Research at DFCI

    Compbio Connections November 6, 12:00 -1:00 PM ET Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th floor, Zelen Commons Michael Tolstorukov Director, Bioinformatics and Molecular Data, Informatics and Analytics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Lunch is provided.

  • Ligand Receptor Analysis in a Spatial Context

    The Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core in partnership with The Cancer Data Sciences Program at DF/HCC are very excited to present the Fall seminar series: Novel Applications in Single Cell Omics Ligand receptor analysis in a spatial context November 7th Sizun Jiang, PhD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Harvard Medical School Martin Hemberg, PhD and Jingyi […]