Events Calendar

PQG Seminar

In Person

Eric Van Buren Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics & Statistical Genetics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health cellSTAAR: Incorporating single-cell-sequencing-based functional data to boost power in rare variant association testing of non-coding regions Whole genome sequencing studies have identified hundreds of millions of rare variants, the majority of which are in non-coding regions and of … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"

Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar

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Carmen Rodriguez Cabrera Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Abstract: Personalized medicine has become very popular because it recognizes that individuals may respond differently to the same treatment due to differences in their underlying biology. With the emergence of large amounts of data coming from electronic health records linked with … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"

HIV Working Group Seminar

Virtual In Person

Keith Barnatchez Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Estimating Causal Effects with Error-Prone Exposures Using Control Variates Abstract: Exposure measurement error poses a common challenge to performing causal inference in observational studies. Despite the growing body of work at the intersection of causal inference and measurement error, there remains a critical need for flexible, … Continue reading "HIV Working Group Seminar"

HIV Working Group Seminar

Virtual In Person

Keith Barnatchez PhD Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics  "Estimating Causal Effects with Error-Prone Exposures Using Control Variates" Abstract:   Exposure measurement error poses a common challenge to performing causal inference in observational studies. Despite the growing body of work at the intersection of causal inference and measurement error, there remains a … Continue reading "HIV Working Group Seminar"

PQG Seminar

In Person

Shamil Sunyaev Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital The puzzling variation of complex traits

Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar

In Person

Rong Ma Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A Spectral Approach to Assessing and Combining Multiple Data Embeddings Abstract: Dimension reduction is an indispensable part of modern data science, and many algorithms have been developed. However, different algorithms have their own strengths and weaknesses, making it important to evaluate their … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar"

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.

PQG Working Group

In Person

Kaia Mattioli Postdoctoral Research Fellow Brigham and Women’s Hospital Widespread variation in molecular interactions and regulatory properties among transcription factor isoforms Transcription factors (TFs) control gene expression by interacting with … Continue reading "PQG Working Group"