2019 Annual Symposium

Pipelines Into Biostatistics Annual Symposium

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Kresge G-3
Thursday, July 18, 2019

AGENDA

8:30 – 9:00am    Registration & Breakfast

Opening Remarks and Introductions
9:00 – 9:30am

Marcello Pagano
Professor of Statistical Computing and Principal Investigator, Harvard Chan School

Wendy McRae-Owoeye
Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Harvard Chan School

John Quackenbush
Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School

Keynote Speaker
9:30 – 10:30am

Biostatistics and Non-Traditional Pathways
DeJuran Richardson, PhD

The Ernest H. Volwiler Professor of Mathematics and Chair, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Lake Forest College, Director and Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics Section of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center

Post-Baccalaureate Research Project Presentations

10:35 – 11:00am         Confidence in STEM: Foe to scientific and social progress?
Kimberlyn Bailey, State University of New York at Oswego ’16 and Le Moyne College ‘16

Faculty Mentor: Rafael Irizarry, Chair, Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Center, and Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School
Graduate Student Mentor: Christina Howe, Harvard Chan School

11:00 – 11:15am         Break & Refreshments

11:20 – 11:45am         Tuning the Epigenetic Clock: Exploring how Analyzing Regional Methylation Can Improve Age Prediction
Quentin Bethune, University of Massachusetts at Amherst ‘19

Faculty Mentor: Rafael Irizarry, Chair, Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Center, and Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School
Graduate Student Mentor: Christina Howe and Rolando Acosta Nuñez, Harvard Chan School

Summer Program Research Project Presentations

11:50 – 12:15pm         Digitization, Wrangling, and Visualization of Published Data on how Race and Gender Influence Professors’ Perceptions of Post-Doctoral Candidates

Orandy Forth, University at Buffalo ‘21
Claidys Lanzot Cruz, University of Puerto Rico ‘20
Sabrina Trombetta, Amherst College ‘21

Faculty Mentor: Rafael Irizarry, Chair, Department of Data Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Center, and Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School
Graduate Student Mentor: Isabella Grabski, Harvard Chan School

12:20 – 12:45pm         Application of Classification Methods on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes after Infant Cardiac Surgery

Alexa Gonzalez-Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico ‘20
Ian Reyes, University of Texas at El Paso ‘21
Carissa Villanueva, Saint Louis University ‘20

Faculty Mentor: David Wypij, Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Graduate Student Mentor: Lara Maleyeff, Harvard Chan School

12:50 – 2:00pm            Networking Lunch

Journeys in Biostatistics Panel
2:00 – 2:45pm

Advisory Board:
Scarlett Bellamy
, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health
Aaron Foster, Vice President of Business Analytics & Insights at Pfizer, and Lecturer in Applied Analytics at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies
Melody Goodman, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, New York University
DeJuran Richardson, The Ernest H. Volwiler Professor of Mathematics & Chair, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Lake Forest College
 and the Director & Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics, Section of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush University Medical Center

Summer Program Alumni:
Christina Howe
, PhD student, Harvard Chan School ’17
Tyler Vu, PhD student, University of California, San Diego – School of Medicine ’17

Summer Program Research Project Presentations (continued)

2:50 – 3:15pm              Determination of causal relationships between the gut microbiome and complex traits using Mendelian randomization methods

Daisy Hernandez, Grinnell College ‘21
Quoc Nguyen, Brown University ‘19
Ana Stevens, Pomona College ‘20

Faculty Mentor: Liming Liang, Associate Professor of Statistical Genetics, Harvard Chan School
Graduate Student Mentor: Luli Zou, Harvard Chan School

3:20 – 3:45pm              A New Kawasaki Ninja- The Covert Effect of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status on Hospital Outcomes of Kawasaki Disease

Jeffrey Okewunmi, Brown University ‘19
Abigail Derton, University of Texas at Arlington ’19

Faculty Mentor: Kimberlee Gauvreau, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School
Graduate Student Mentor: Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi, Harvard Chan School

Closing Remarks
3:45 – 4:00pm    

Marcello Pagano
Professor of Statistical Computing and Principal Investigator, Harvard Chan School