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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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 […]

Modeling Multiscale Genome and Cellular Organization

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Seminar Tuesday April 15 at 4:00pm Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Center for Life Sciences Building, 11th Floor, Room 11081 Jian Ma, PhD Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor of Computational Biology Carnegie Mellon University   The intersection of Al/ML and biomedicine is entering a transformative era, with growing potential to impact […]

Complex Disease Modeling And Efficient Drug Discovery With Large Language Models

HSPH Biostatistics and DFCI Data Science Seminar Tuesday April 29 from 11:00-12:00pm Zoom only (Link to be posted shortly) Yu Li, PhD Assistant Professor, CSE The Chinese University of Hong Kong Large language models, which can integrate and process large amounts of data in biomedicine, have great potential in modeling complex diseases and discovering functional […]

Immunotherapy Response Prediction in Melanoma

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 450 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA, United States

2025 DF/HCC Cancer Data Sciences Program Lunch Workshop Tuesday June 3, 2025 1:00-4:00PM Yawkey Conference Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute RSVP, seating limited: https://bit.ly/dfhcc-cds25 Speakers: Alexander Gusev, PhD, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Rizwan Haq, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute David Liu, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, […]

Statistics for Computational Biology Projects

HBC Current Topics in Bioinformatics June 18, 2025, 01:00-4:00 PM Register here. Erica Holdmore, PhD Computational Biologist, Knowledge Systems DFCI Department of Data Sciences Statistics is an important tool for computational biologists because it helps us quantitatively understand and analyze biological data. This interactive training session will cover an introduction to statistical concepts. Topics will […]

Deeper Differential Expression Analysis with Shrinkage Correction

  HBC Current Topics in Bioinformatics Jul 16, 2025 01:00 PM Register here. February's R Basics, or a working knowledge of R, is a prerequisite for this workshop. Jared Brown, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Irizarry Lab DFCI Data Science Differential expression (alternately abundance) analysis is regularly a core tool in identifying and quantifying differences between […]

Preference Inference for Language Models Debiased by Fisher Random Walk Models

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

HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series September 11 at 4:00PM Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, FXB-301 Junwei Lu, PhD Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Human preference alignment has been shown to be effective in training the large language models (LMs). It allows the LLM to […]

Reproducible Research – Tools and a case study with NHANES

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

HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series September 18, 2025 4:00 PM HSPH FXB-301 Robert Gentleman, PhD Principal Research Scientist Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute I will discuss how new technologies and statistical methodologies can help enhance our ability to perform reproducible research. I will demonstrate how these […]

Call for Abstracts: DF/HCC Early Career Investigators Symposium

2025 Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Celebration of Early Career Investigators November 4, 2025 from 1:00-5:30PM In-Person at Dana Farber Cancer Institute Yawkey Conference Center Do you work in population science, including epidemiology, biostatistics, outcomes, diversity, cancer care delivery research, and early detection? We invite students, postdocs, residents, and clinical fellows to submit abstracts for consideration as […]

Navigate the Crossroad of Statistics, Generative AI and Genomic Health

HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Series Thursday October 2, 2025 4:00pm ET HSPH FXB-301 Xihong Lin, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics, Harvard University Integrating statistics with generative Al provides unprecedent opportunities to empower statistical science and accelerate trustworthy scientific discovery by leveraging the potential of generative Al models alongside rigorous […]