The Biostatistics Summer Projects Presentations will be held on Tuesday, August 23, from 2-5pm in Kresge 502, followed by a reception. Please attend if possible and help encourage our students!
Session 1: hosted by Kevin Cummiskey
2:00 PM
Cummiskey, Kevin
A Source-Based Approach to Coal Combustion PM2.5 Health Effects
Supervisor: Cory Zigler
2:15 PM
Lerebours, Reginald “Gino”
Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding in the Analysis of the Effect of Enforcing National Ambient Air Quality Standards for PM2.5
Supervisor: Cory Zigler
2:30 PM
Zemplenyi, Michele
Identifying Epigenetic Regions Exhibiting Critical Windows of Susceptibility to Air Pollution in Cord Blood Methylation Outcomes
Supervisor: Brent Coull
2:45 PM
Chen, Tom
Stochastic GEE for Estimating Intraclass Correlation
Supervisor: Rui Wang
3:00 PM
Cook, Kaitlyn
Conditional Power Analysis for Cluster Randomized Trials with Time-to-Event Endpoints
Supervisor: Rui Wang
3:15 PM
BREAK
Session 2: hosted by Maya Mathur
3:30 PM
Thomas, Emma
A Method for Investigating Cross-Study Reproducibility of Unsupervised Clustering Algorithms
Supervisor: Lorenzo Trippa / Svitlana Tyekucheva
3:45 PM
Guan, Zoe
BRCA-Gail: A Combination Model for Breast Cancer Risk Prediction
Supervisors: Giovanni Parmigiani / Danielle Brain
4:00 PM
Lareau, Caleb
Characterizing the Causes and Effects of Variability in the Three-Dimensional Genome
Supervisor: Martin Aryee
4:15 PM
Ploenzke, Matthew
A Framework for Discovering Biases in RNA-Seq
Supervisor: Rafael Irizarry
4:30 PM
Mathur, Maya
Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding in Meta-Analysis
Supervisor: Tyler Vanderweele
4:45 PM
Thaweethai, Tanayott “Tony”
Estimating the Effect of Androgen Deprivation Therapy on Prostate Cancer: Adjusting for Time-Varying Confounders using the Parametric g-formula
Supervisor: Lorelei Mucci
