Monday February 28, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Genevieve Stein-O'Brien Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics; Department of Neuroscience; and McKusick-Nathans Department of Genomic Medicine Assistant Director, Johns Hopkins University Single Cell Consortium Register. Abstract: As the single-cell field races to characterize each cell type, state, and […]

Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:00pm Eastern Time Rebecca A. Hubbard, PhD Professor of Biostatistics University of Pennsylvania Perlman School of Medicine YouTube Video Abstract: Opportunities to use real-world data (RWD), including electronic health records (EHR) and medical claims data, have exploded over the past decade. The Covid-19 pandemic has provided a particularly dramatic illustration of […]

Friday, March 4, 2022 12:00PM Eastern Time Ani Eloyan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics, Brown University Register. Abstract: Cancer patients routinely undergo radiological evaluations where images of various modalities including computed tomography, positron emission tomography, and magnetic resonance images are collected for diagnosis and for evaluation of disease progression. Tumor characteristics, often referred to […]

Monday March 7th, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Ava Soleimany, PhD Senior Researcher, Biomedical Machine Learning Group at Microsoft Research, New England Abstract: Precision cancer medicine envisions a world where diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities are intelligently tailored to individual patient needs. Achieving this vision necessitates access to high quality, accurate, and individualized information about disease state. […]

Maya Ramchandran Data Scientist, ZephyrAI Abstract: Adapting machine learning algorithms to better handle clustering or other partition structure within training data sets is important across a wide variety of biological applications. We first consider the task of learning prediction models when multiple training studies are available. We present a novel weighting approach  for constructing tree-based ensemble […]

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Series Tuesday September 13, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Yijuan Hu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Rollins School of Public Health Emory University Register for Zoom link Abstract: Studies on the human microbiome have revealed that differences in microbial communities are associated with many human disorders such as inflammatory […]

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Series Tuesday November 1, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Register for in-person or virtual attendance. Wendy London, PhD Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Director of Biostatistics, Boston Children’s Hospital Clement Ma, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Independent Scientist, CAMH

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday December 6, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Register for Zoom link. Jessie Tenenbaum, PhD she / her / hers Chief Data Officer NC Department of Health and Human Services

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday January 24, 2023 1:00PM Eastern Time Click to watch the YouTube video. Peter Mueller, PhD Professor Department of Statistics and Data Sciences Department of Mathematics University of Texas at Austin  

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday February 14, 2023 1:00PM Eastern Time YouTube video Emily Zabor, DrPH Assistant Staff Biostatistician Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the Cleveland Clinic, with a joint appointment in the Taussig Cancer Institute Assistant Professor of Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University

Thursday March 2, 2023 1:00pm ET Hillary Heiling Biostatistics PhD candidate University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Add to calendar Hillary’s statistical focus has primarily been in cancer-related research, both through her graduate research assistant role in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as her personal research applications. In cancer research as well as […]

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Wednesday March 29, 2023 1:00PM Eastern Time Pixu Shi, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Division of Integrative Genomics Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Duke University School of Medicine Abstract: The analysis of longitudinal microbiome is crucial to the understanding of how microbiome changes over time. It often requires careful […]

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday May 9, 2023 1:00PM Eastern Time Join the Zoom. Fan Li, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health Cluster-randomized experiments are increasingly used to evaluate interventions in routine practice conditions, and researchers often adopt model-based methods with covariate adjustment in the statistical analyses. However, the validity of model-based […]