Choosing Good Subsamples for Regression Modelling: Nearly-True Models?

Harvard Biostatistics Colloquium Series Thursday February 6th 4:00-5:00PM Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB G12 Thomas Lumley, PhD, Chair in Biostatistics, University of Aukland, New Zealand; Affiliate Professor, University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics

Current Methods in Single Cell FFPE Analysis

CompBio Connections February 19, 2025 at 12pm DFCI Center for Life Science Building, Zelen Commons Anthony Anselmo Lead Bioinformatician Center for Cancer Genomics, DFCI Lunch is provided.

Single-cell Multi-sample Multi-condition Data Integration to Uncover Disease Signatures

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB G13 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday February 27th at 4pm HSPH FXB Room G13 Yingxin Lin, PhD Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health The recent emergence of multi-sample multi-condition single-cell multi cohort studies allows researchers to investigate different cell states. The effective integration of multiple […]

How Do Neural Networks Learn Features From Data?

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HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Monday March 3rd at 4:00pm HSPH Kresge G2 Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Abstract: Understanding how neural networks learn features, or relevant patterns in data, is key to accelerating scientific discovery. […]

Universal Prediction of Cell-cycle Position Using Transfer Learning

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HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday, March 6, 2025 4:00pm Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB G13 Kasper Hansen, PhD Associate Professor, McKusick-Nathans Insitute of Genetic Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University A significant barrier to progress in biomedical data science is the development of prediction models that work across contexts such […]

Decoding Aging at Spatial and Single-cell Resolution with Machine Learning

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HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Monday March 10th at 4:00pm HSPH Kresge G2 Eric Sun PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics Stanford University Aging is a highly complex process and the greatest risk factor for many chronic diseases including cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, diabetes, and cancer. Recent spatial and single-cell omics technologies have […]

Dissecting Tumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity from Single-cell RNA-seq Data by Generalized Binary Covariance Decomposition

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HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Tuesday March 11th at 4:00pm HSPH FXB G12 Yusha Liu, PhD Research Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Profiling tumors with single-cell RNA sequencing has the potential to identify recurrent patterns of transcription variation related to cancer progression, and to produce […]

Data Integration in Spatial and Single Cell Omics: What is Erased, and Can you Recover it?

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HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday, March 27, 2025 4:00pm Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB G13 Nancy Zhang, PhD Ge Li and Ning Zhao Professor, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Vice Dean of Wharton Doctoral Programs,  The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania In single-cell and spatial biology, data integration refers […]

Fréchet Regression of Random Objects on Vector Covariates and Its Applications for Single Cell RNA-seq Data Analysis

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HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Colloquium Thursday, April 3, 2025 4:00pm Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB G13 Hongzhe Li, PhD Perelman Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics Director, Center for Statistics in Big Data Vice Chair for Research Integration, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Population-level single-cell RNA-seq […]

2025 Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium

Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Kresge G1 Auditorium 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United States

We invite you to attend the Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium, an event that celebrates the life and contributions of a remarkable figure in the field of statistics. This symposium will be held on Friday, April 4, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the Kresge G1 Auditorium, located in the Harvard TH Chan School […]