Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium
Alumna, 2004 Cohort
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Smith Building, Room 308/309
Thursday, July 23, 2015
AGENDA
2015 Symposium Schedule
8:30 – 9:00am Registration & Breakfast
Session I – Opening Remarks and Introductions
9:00 – 9:20am
Rebecca Betensky, Professor of Biostatistics and Principal Investigator, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Meredith Rosenthal, Associate Dean for Diversity and Professor of Health Economics and Policy, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Xihong Lin, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Session II – Keynote Speaker
9:20 – 10:20am Climate Change: Expanding the Impact of Diversity Interventions in Higher Education
Sherilynn Black, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Medical Education, Director of the Office of Biomedical Graduate Diversity, and Co-Principal Investigator of the BioCoRE program, Duke University
Session III – Summer Program Research Project Presentations
10:25 – 10:45am Automated Phenotyping of Patient EMR Data Feature Extraction and Selection
Rolando Acosta, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao ‘16
William Artman, University of Rochester ’16
Cassandra Burdziak, Rutgers University ‘16
Faculty Mentor: Tianxi Cai, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Graduate Mentor: Sheng Yu, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
10:50 – 11:10am Differential Outcomes by SES in Children Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Sergio Barrera, University of Arizona ’16
Randy Davila, University of California, Davis ’17
Emily Roberts, Coe College ’16
Faculty Mentor: Donna Neuberg, Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics, Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Mentors: Traci Blonquist, MS Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Graduate Mentor: Joey Antonelli, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
11:15 – 11:30am Break & Refreshments
11:30 – 11:50am The Effects of Environmental Factors and the BRCA Genetic Mutation on Ovarian Cancer Risk
Andrea Lane, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ’16
Jennifer Osei, Cornell University ’14
Nathalie Quiroz, Stony Brook University ’15
Faculty Mentor: Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen, Professor of Biostatistics and
Epidemiologic Methods, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Graduate Mentor: Kathy Evans, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
11:55 – 12:15pm The Effects of Probe Sequencing On Microarray Gene Expression Measurements
Kevin Kupiec, Lake Forest College ’17
Randy Williams, Fordham University ’15
Pedro Agrinsoni Munoz, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao ’15
Faculty Mentor: Rafa Irizarry, Professor of Biostatistics, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Graduate Mentor: Ryan Sun, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Session IV – Summer Program Alumni: Conversation Over Lunch
12:20 – 2:00pm Journeys in Biostatistics After the Summer Program
Please take a moment to visit project posters of our recent alumni:
Gene Expression Networks of Histone Methyltransferases SET1 and SET5 in S. Cerevisiae
Grace Choi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County ‘16
Development of Computational Tools to Enable Data Driven Research, with a Focus on Visualization and Exploration of Genomics and Epigenomics Data
Jake Conway, University of Massachusetts, Lowell ’16
A Comparison of Prominent Models to Predict the Malignancy of Solitary
Pulmonary Nodules
Lilyana Gross, California State University, Monterey Bay ’15
Session V – Pipelines, Mentoring, and Strategies
2:00 – 3:00pm Advocating for Diversity from a Personal and Professional Perspective
Minerva Cordero, Associate Dean and Professor of Mathematics,
University of Texas at Arlington
Session VI – Post-Baccalaureate Research Project Presentations
3:00 – 3:20pm Contrasting Breast Cancer Subtypes by Analyzing Differences in Network Structure
Kamrine Poels, Post-baccalaureate Program Participant
Faculty Mentor: John Quackenbush, Professor of Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics, DFCI & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:25 – 3:45pm The Sexual Network of HIV in Botswana
Felicia Gibson, Post-baccalaureate Program Participant
Faculty Mentor: Victor DeGruttola, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
3:45 – 4:00pm Closing Remarks
Rebecca Betensky, Professor of Biostatistics and Principal Investigator, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
