Thesis Defense: Alexandra Barry Time: Monday May 6, 2024, at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Alexandra will present the thesis titled “Leveraging Electronic Health Record-Linked Biobanks for Pharmacogenetic Discovery in Type 2 Diabetes: Genetic Discovery of Novel Variants and Assessment of Polygenic Risk Scores”. The thesis committee is chaired by Josephine Li and … Continue reading "Thesis Defense – Alexandra Barry"
Thesis Defense: Anthony Ma Time: Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94566387781 Anthony will present the thesis titled “Multimodal Representation Learning in Spatial Transcriptomics for Computational Pathology”. The thesis committee is chaired by Andrew Song and includes Faisal Mahmood and John Quackenbush.
Hui will present the dissertation entitled “Powerful Statistical Methods for Precise Heritability Estimation and Partitioning using Summary Statistics”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Xihong Lin, and includes Dr. Rahul Mazumder, Dr. Alkes Price, and Dr. Samuel Kou.
Jiaxin will present the thesis entitled “Unsupervised Model Aggregation Methods to Integrate Pre-trained Polygenic Risk Prediction Models". The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Rui Duan, and includes Dr. Georg Hahn and Dr. Erin Lake.
Thesis Defense: Minye Zhou Time: Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92207007205 Minye will present the thesis titled “Integrating RNA-seq and ATAC-seq Data to Elucidate Gene Regulatory Networks”. The thesis committee is chaired by Felix Dietlein and includes Lori Chibnik and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense: Yifan Duan Time: Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96809748553 Yifan will present the thesis titled “Benchmarking compositional data analysis methods for single-cell RNA-seq data”. The thesis committee is chaired by Adam Haber and includes Sophia Carryl, Wenjiang Deng, and John Quackenbush.
Daniel Schwartz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Dynamic Latent Factor Models To Infer Dietary Patterns From Nutrition Survey Data Abstract: A growing body of research has shown … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar"
Thesis Defense: Mian Zhao Time: Thursday May 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94566387781 Mian will present the thesis titled “Phenotypic and genome evolution after radiation induced DNA damage”. The thesis committee is chaired by Cheng-Zhong Zhang and includes Spektor Alexander and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense: Michelle Dai Time: Thursday May 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92102482641 Michelle will present the thesis titled “Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Schizophrenia Drug Repurposing”. The thesis committee is chaired by Jukka-Pekka Onnela and includes Marinka Zitnik and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense: Yuelai Wang Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97625956716 Yuelai will present the thesis titled “Hidden Markov Modeling of Somatic Mutations in Human Melanoma Cancer”. The thesis committee is chaired by Felix Dietlein and includes Junwei Lu and John Quackenbush.
