Events Calendar

Dissertation Defense – Nathan Huey

Virtual In Person

Nathan will present the dissertation entitled "On Inference in High-Dimensional Settings via De-sparsifying Techniques with Applications in Genomics". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee and Dr. Brent Coull, and includes Dr. Junwei Lu, and Dr. Christoph Lange.

PQG Seminar

In Person

Ron Do Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Advances in Mendelian Randomization: Robust Causal Inference and Identification of Risk Factors for Coronary Artery Disease Mendelian randomization (MR) is a commonly used approach in human genetics to infer causal risk factors for complex diseases. In this talk, I … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"

Dissertation Defense – Octavious Smiley

In Person

Octavious will present the dissertation entitled “Inference for Mechanistic Network Models and Visualization of Real-World Network Data”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. JP Onnela, and includes Dr. Xihong Lin, and Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee.

Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar

In Person

Amy Zhou Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University "A Class of Case-Cohort Designs for Semi-Competing Risks" ABSTRACT: Semi-competing risks refers to the setting where interest lies in some non-terminal event, the occurrence of which is subject to some terminal event (usually death). While existing analysis methods generally assume complete data on all relevant covariates, … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"

PQG Seminar

In Person

Luke O’Connor Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, HMS Associate Member, Broad Institute Graphical models of linkage disequilibrium and applications Linkage disequilibrium graphical models (LDGMs) are an efficient new approach to … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"

HIV Working Group

Virtual In Person

Robert Shapiro, Ph.D. Principal Research Scientist, Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health "Early diagnosis and novel HIV treatment strategies for children: results … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"