2022 Marvin Zelen Symposum: Data Visualization

The growing availability of informative datasets and software tools has led to increased reliance on data visualizations across many industries, academia, and government. News organizations are increasingly embracing data journalism and including effective infographics as part of their reporting, while in research we increasingly rely on data visualization to assess data quality and describe and […]

Frontiers in Biostatistics: Tree-based Ensembling Strategies for Handling Heterogeneous Data

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 […]

Data Science Seminar: Identification of Novel Oncogenic and Neurodevelopmental Programs Using Bulk and Single-cell Sequencing Approaches

Jeremy M. Simon, Ph.D. (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Department of Genetics Co-Principal, Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative (BARC) Director, UNC Neuroscience Center Bioinformatics Core Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Register for Zoom Webinar. Establishing and maintaining proper transcriptional programs is central to both development and disease, and involves the […]

Training Session: Biomarkers in Cancer Research

Wednesday June 15, 2022 10:00-12:00pm Eastern Time Nabihah Tayob, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Zoom registration: https://bit.ly/TSJune22  

It’s All Relative: Testing Differential Abundance in Compositional Microbiome Data

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 […]

Postdoc Open House

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Data Science announces its third annual Postdoc Open House Day on Friday, October 14th, 12pm-7pm in person. If you are interested in learning more about postdoctoral opportunities at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and would like to learn about the research our faculty are conducting, please sign up for this free […]

Design and Implementation of Bayesian Adaptive Phase I Trials in Oncology using the DEDUCE Application

Center of Life Sciences, Room 11081 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, United States

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

A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Use RWD in Clinical Trial Design

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  

Using the Case Study of Atezolizumab Development to Rethink Early Phase Oncology Trial Design

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

Computation of High-Dimensional Penalized Generalized Linear Mixed Models

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 […]

Dimension Reduction of Longitudinal Microbiome Data

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 […]

Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: From New Techniques to Clinical Translation

Simmons University 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA, United States

Zelen 2023 Program The 2023 Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium featuring talks by: Andy Beck (Co-founder & CEO, Path AI) Emerging Methods in Machine Learning and Applications for Digital Pathology Jonathan Chen (Instructor in Pathology, MGH) Multicellular Networks: Immunity Hubs in Human NSCLC Marzyeh Ghassemi (Assistant Professor, MIT) Designing Machine Learning Processes For Equitable Health Systems […]

Model-robust and Efficient Covariate Adjustment for Cluster-randomized Experiments

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 […]

BioC2023: the Bioconductor Annual Conference

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 1 Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, MA, United States

We are incredibly excited that Bioc2023 the annual Bioconductor meeting will be in Boston at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from August 2-4. It is a hybrid meeting to enable maximum outreach to our global community. Registration is now open and scholarships are available.  Contact us for sponsorship opportunities.  Speakers include: JJ Allaire (Founder and CEO […]

Forecasting pancreatic carcinogenesis from spatial multi-omics

Center of Life Sciences, Room 11081 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, United States

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday September 26, 2023 @ 10am ET Center for Life Sciences Building, Room 11081 Elana Fertig, PhD Division Director of Oncology Quantitative Sciences, Professor of Oncology Johns Hopkins University YouTube Video Combining genomics with mathematical modeling provides a forecast system that can yield computational predictions to anticipate cancer progression and therapeutic […]

AI in Medical Imaging: Current State & Future Opportunities

Center of Life Sciences, Room 11081 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, United States

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday October 24, 2023 @ 1pm ET Center for Life Sciences Building, Room 11081 William Lotter, PhD Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School YouTube Video Want to get our weekly events newsletter? Click here!

Single-cell Multiomic Exploration of Oncogenic and Immunologic Programs in Melanoma and CLL

Center for Life Sciences, Zelen Commons 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA

Elevate @ Eleven: Comp Bio Connections Wednesday November 8th, 2023 12:00-1:00PM In-person only, Zelen Commons, 11th floor of the Center for Life Sciences Building Jeremy Simon Senior Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Lunch is provided.