Collaborative Grant Writing and Statistical Methods for Grants

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

Data Sciences Training Session Rebecca Gelman, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Data Sciences Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The Clinical Impact of Genomics in the Pediatric Oncology

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

DFCI Genomics Meetup Katherine Janeway, MD Pediatric Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Pizza is provided.  

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Introduction to single cell RNA-seq data analysis for statisticians

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

Data Science Training Session Kelly Street, Research Fellow Etai Jacob, Research Fellow In this short course, we will introduce some of the most widely used tools for single cell analysis. We will describe common experimental methods utilized in the community to generate single cell RNA-seq data and demonstrate modern pre-processing and analysis pipelines. In addition, […]

COVID-19 Data Science Zoomposium

Caroline Buckee, Department of Biostatistics Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health How do we predict the pandemic? Michael Mina, Department of Epidemiology Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health The importance and challenges of testing for COVID-19 Natalie Dean, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida How we evaluate the efficacy of potential therapies and […]

Data Science Zoominar: Teaching Data Science to the Masses

A conversation with Jeff Leek, PhD, Johns Hopkins University. Moderator: Rafael Irizarry. Registration required. https://dfci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XscX-d21RqylhDCXzvP2-Q A recording of the talk is available on our YouTube channel.

Data Science Zoominar: COVID-19 Update

A conversation with Marc Lipsitch, PhD Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Moderator: Rafael Irizarry Registration required: https://dfci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F_ROPV-RRNyXGoXaoTWFNw A recording of the talk is available on our YouTube channel.

Data Science Zoominar: The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications

A conversation with Elisabeth Bik, PhD, Microbiome & Science Integrity Consultant, Harbers Bik LLC Moderator: Rafael Irizarry, PhD We are pleased to announce a new weekly Zoominar for Data Science. Rather than a traditional seminar format, Rafael Irizarry will moderate a Q&A with invited speakers on various topics in data science. Join us for these […]

Data Science Zoominar: Massachusetts Data from the COVID-19 Response

A conversation with Gillian Haney, Director of Infectious Disease Surveillance and Informatics, Massachusetts Department of Public Health and Catherine (Katie) Brown, State Public Health Veterinarian, Massachusetts Department of Public Health Moderator: Rafael Irizarry We are pleased to announce a new weekly Zoominar for Data Science. Rather than a traditional seminar format, Rafael Irizarry will moderate […]

Data Science Zoominar: A Debate About the Severity of the COVID-19 Pandemic

A conversation with John P.A. Ioannidis, C. F. Rehnborg Professor In Disease Prevention In The School Of Medicine, Professor Of Medicine, Of Health Research And Policy (Epidemiology) And By Courtesy, Of Statistics And Of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Moderator: Rafael Irizarry We are pleased to announce a new weekly Zoominar for Data Science. Rather […]

Data Science Zoominar: The Latest on COVID-19 Testing: How Can Testing Help Us Reopen?

A conversation with Michael Mina, Assistant Professor Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Moderator: Rafael Irizarry We are pleased to announce a new weekly Zoominar for Data Science. Rather than a traditional seminar format, Rafael Irizarry will moderate a Q&A with invited speakers on various topics […]

Data Science Zoominar: A Comparison of COVID-19 Prediction Models

A conversation with Nicholas Reich, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst Moderator: Rafael Irizarry https://bit.ly/DSJuly21 We are pleased to announce a new weekly Zoominar for Data Science. Rather than a traditional seminar format, Rafael Irizarry will moderate a Q&A with invited speakers on various topics in data science. Join us for these interactive […]

Data Science Zoominar: Increasing Diversity in Data Science

A conversation with Emma Benn, DrPh Associate Professor, Center for Biostatistics and Department of Population Health Science and Policy Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Moderator: Rafael Irizarry A recording of the talk is available on our YouTube channel.

Training Sessions: InForm

Wednesday August 26 from 10:00am to 12:00PM Danny Quinn will demonstrate extracting DF/HCC clinical trials data from InForm (which is the electronic data capture system (eDC)) into SAS data sets. There will also be a discussion on the attributes of the data sets and various utilities which support the extraction process.

A New Hybrid Phase I-II-III Clinical Trial Paradigm

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday September 15, 2020 at 1:00PM Eastern Time Peter F. Thall, PhD Department of Biostatistics University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Abstract: Conventional evaluation of a new drug, 𝐴, is done in three phases. Phase I relies on toxicity to determine a “maximum tolerable dose” (MTD) of 𝐴, in phase […]

Cancer Development, Heterogeneity and Dynamics from Premalignancy to Drug Refractory Disease

Data Science Seminar September 22, 2020 2:00PM ET Ignaty Leshchiner, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital Zoom link: http://bit.ly/DSSept22 Abstract: Real-time study of tumor emergence and progression in patients will help predict and ultimately change the course of the patient's disease. This could be achieved by inferring genotypes of heterogeneous cell populations within […]

3D Spatial Organization Within Tumors

Data Science Seminar September 29, 2020 1:00PM ET Martin Aryee, PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School Assistant Molecular Pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital Zoom link: https://dfci.zoom.us/j/95524743149?pwd=SzN4cjJZUnhsNVl3dXNmZjZ1N3F4QT09 Abstract: The spatial organization of biological systems can impart additional functionality beyond that of the individual components. This is true at a range of scales – from cells […]

Marvin Zelen Symposium 2020

In December of 2019, we planned the next Marvin Zelen Symposium for March of 2020. At that point, the year ahead seemed to be a data spectacle waiting to happen. Think about all the events planned for 2020! Here’s what we wrote. The topic of this year's Marvin Zelen Symposium has to do with the […]

Constructing Confidence Interval for RMST under Group Sequential Setting

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar October 13, 2020 1:00PM Lu Tian, PhD Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science in the School of Medicine Stanford University It is appealing to compared survival distributions based on restricted mean survival time (RMST), since it generates a clinically interpretable summary of the treatment effect, which can be estimated nonparametrically without […]

Computational Biology of DNA Repair in Cancer

Data Science Seminar October 15, 2020 1:00PM ET Dominik Glodzik, PhD Repare Therapeutics Zoom link: https://bit.ly/DSOct15 Abstract: Whole genome sequences contain within them signatures of mutational processes. In particular, some of the mutation signatures relate to impaired DNA-repair in cancer cells. Accurate measurement of mutation signatures reveals the role of DNA-repair deficiencies in etiology and […]

Data Science Zoominar: Data Science and Academic Leadership

Tuesday October 20, 2020 1:00PM ET Data Science and Academic Leadership A conversation with F. DuBois Bowman, PhD Dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health Moderator: Rafael Irizarry Video available on our YouTube Channel.

Data Science Zoominar: Communicating Statistical Findings Effectively

Tuesday November 17, 2020 1:00PM ET Communicating Statistical Findings Effectively A conversation with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication Centre for Mathematical Sciences Author: The Art of Statistics Moderator: Rafael Irizarry RSVP at https://bit.ly/DSNov17

Postdoctoral Open House

The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Data Science announces our first annual Postdoc Open House. Join us on Monday, December 7th at 1:00PM EST to explore postdoctoral opportunities in cancer research. Participating faculty include:  Rafael Irizarry, PhD, Professor and Department Chair X. Shirley Liu, PhD, Professor Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD, Professor Franziska Michor, PhD, Professor Lorenzo […]

DF/HCC Cancer Data Science Program &Harvard Chan Bioinformatics CoreJoint Symposium on scRNAseq Methodology

Monday, December 14, 3:00-4:30 PM ET RSVP https://bit.ly/CDSBioDec14 Speakers: Aedin Culhane, Senior Research Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Isabella Grabski, PhD Student in Biostatistics, Harvard University Probabilistic gene barcodes identify cell-types in single-cell RNA-sequencing data Shannan Ho Sui, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health […]

Data Science Zoominar: Data-Driven Policy in Puerto Rico

Tuesday December 15, 2020 1:00PM ET Data-Driven Policy in Puerto Rico A conversation with Arnaldo Cruz Director of Research and Policy of the Financial Oversight and Management Board of Puerto Rico Co-founder of ABRE Puerto Rico Moderator: Rafael Irizarry RSVP at https://bit.ly/DSDec15

Frontiers in Biostatistics: Statistical Modeling and Adjustment for Sampling Biases

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar January 12, 2021 1:00PM Jing Ning, PhD Associate Professor. Department of Biostatistics Division of Quantitative Sciences The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Register at: https://bit.ly/FIBJan12 Abstract: Bias sampling mechanisms are commonly encountered in applications where the subjects in a target population are not given an equal chance to be selected, […]

Data Science Zoominar: Vaccine Prioritization Strategies

Tuesday January 26, 2021 1:00PM ET A conversation with Daniel Larremore Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science at University of Colorado-Boulder and BioFrontiers Institute and Kate Bubar Student, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado-Boulder Moderator: Rafael Irizarry RSVP at https://bit.ly/DSJan26 YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuHNNP8TLg

Frontiers in Biostatistics: Group Sequential Design Assuming Delayed Benefit

February 9, 2021 1:00PM ET Keaven Anderson, PhD Scientific AVP, Methodology Research, Biostatistics at Merck Group Sequential Design Assuming Delayed Benefit Abstract: We consider an asymptotic approach to design of group sequential trials with a potentially delayed effects. Logrank, weighted logrank tests and combination tests are of primary interest, but we also consider restricted mean […]

Data Science Zoominar: Diversity and Ethics in Genomics

Tuesday February 23, 2021 1:00PM Eastern Time A conversation with Keolu Fox, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, San Diego Moderator: Aedin Culhane YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VANlStOnFPY