Events Calendar

Thesis Defense – Xingchen Hao

Virtual

Xingchen will present the thesis entitled "Association of Alcohol Consumption with Risk of Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Stroke: Results from the Framingham Offspring Study". The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Paige Williams, and includes Dr. Heather Mattie, and Dr. Erin Lake.

Thesis Defense – Carolin Schulte

Virtual

Carolin Schulte will present the thesis on “Predicting complex phenotypes from genetic variation in a diverse population of soil bacteria”. The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Roberto Lozano and includes Dr. John Quackenbush and Dr. Neha Sarode.

Thesis Defense – Nona Jiang

In Person

Nona will present the thesis on “Eicosanoids and Blood Pressure Tracjetory in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)”. The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Jennifer Ho, and includes Dr. John Quackenbush and Dr. Erin Lake.  

Thesis Defense – Kathy Liu

In Person

Kathy will present the thesis on “Categorical Feature Encoding in the Era of Machine Learning: An application to maternal health prediction”. The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Heather Mattie, and includes Dr. Bethany Hedt-Gauthier and Dr. Erin Lake.  

Thesis Defense – Yunyang Zhong

Virtual In Person

Yunyang will present the thesis entitled "A Simulation Study into Reverse Graph Embedding and Application in Type II Diabetes Profiling Using UK Biobank Data". The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Rui Duan, and includes Dr. Rong Ma, and Dr. Erin Lake.

Thesis Defense – Kenny Chen

Virtual

Kenny will present the thesis entitled “Penalized Approaches to Separation of Data in the Assessment of Factors Associated with Spinal Subdural Hemorrhage in Children Evaluated for Abusive Head Trauma”. The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Kathryn Gray, and includes Dr. Katherine Canty, and Dr. Erin Lake.

Thesis Defense – Evelyn Jiang

In Person

Thesis Defense: Evelyn Jiang Time: Monday April 29, 2024, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Evelyn will present the thesis titled “Predicting gene expression using whole-genome DNA methylation in Medulloblastoma”. The thesis committee is chaired by Volker Hovestadt and includes Kyu Ha Lee and John Quackenbush.

Thesis Defense – Yushan Xu

In Person

Thesis Defense: Yushan Xu Time: Monday April 29, 2024, at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 205 Yushan will present the thesis titled “Whole-genome Sequence Analyses for Daytime Sleepiness in the NHLBI TOPMed Program”. The thesis committee is chaired by Heming Wang, and includes Christoph Lange, and John Quackenbush