Jane Liang Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University "Aggregating Across Genes and Cancers in Mendelian Risk Prediction Modeling" ABSTRACT: Identifying individuals whose risk of cancer is increased as a … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Huwenbo Shi and Martin Zhang Postdoctoral Research Fellows, Department of Epidemiology Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Transcriptome-wide association study and fine-mapping at cell-type resolution Transcriptome-wide association studies (TWAS) using cis predicted gene expression have identified thousands of genes associated with diseases and complex traits (Gamazon et al. 2015 Nature Genetics, Gusev et al. … Continue reading "PQG Working Group"
Yue will present the dissertation entitled “Methods for Meta-Analysis and for Modeling HIV Viral Rebound”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rui Wang, and includes Dr. Victor DeGruttola, and Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee.
Lara Maleyeff Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University "Estimating and Testing Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Stepped Wedge Cluster Randomized Trials with Binary Outcomes" ABSTRACT: Stepped wedge cluster randomized trials, … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
Each virtual event features 4 rounds of 5-minute talks by department faculty & postdocs. This is a great opportunity to get a quick snapshot of current department research in a relaxed, social setting.
Andy Shi Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University "Multiple Phenotype - Multiple Genotype Testing with Multidimensional Scan Statistics" ABSTRACT: The increasing popularity of large-scale genetic compendiums has driven a … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Karen Conneely Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics Emory University School of Medicine Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential and DNA methylation in human aging Age-related changes to the epigenome are well-documented, especially the pattern of genome-wide DNA methylation (DNAm) changes observed in blood and other tissues. This pattern is so robust it can accurately estimate … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"
Sahand Hormoz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School "What Can Single Cell Lineage Trees Tell Us About Blood Cancers?" ABSTRACT: I will talk about our recent efforts … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Haoxin will present the thesis entitled “Deep Graph Learning for Modeling Higher-Order Drug Interactions”. The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Marinka Zitnik, and includes Dr. Lori Chibnik, and Dr. John Quackenbush.
Malika Aid-Boudries, Ph.D. Instructor in Medicine, Center for Virology and Vaccine Research/Barouch Laboratory "Pre-vaccination Biomarkers of Vaccines Response Efficacy in SIV Infected NHP Model" ABSTRACT: In a previously published work … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
Donald Jackson, Ph.D. Group Head of Precision Oncology Bioinformatics, Sanofi "Precision Oncology: Advancing Drug Discovery with Genomic Data" ABSTRACT: Continuing advances in genomics and bioinformatics are transforming drug discovery. At … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Jiajinlong Kang will present the thesis entitled “Integrative Analysis of COVID19 Single-Cell Data Reveals Lineage-Specific and Transcription Factor Regulated Expression Programs in Immune Cells”. The thesis committee is chaired by … Continue reading "Thesis Defense – Jiajinlong Kang"
Fanghan will present the thesis entitled “A Comparison Between Random-Effects Models and Generalized Estimating Equations in Evaluation of Longitudinal Measurements of Early White Matter Development in Pediatric Tuberous Sclerosis Complex … Continue reading "Thesis Defense – Fanghan Yang"
Aarón will present the dissertation entitled “Off Policy Reinforcement Learning for Real World Settings”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Tianxi Cai, and includes Dr. Peter Szolovits, and Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee.
Linda will present the dissertation entitled “Methods for the Design of Cluster Randomized Trials”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rui Wang, and includes Dr. Michael Hughes, Dr. Paige Williams, and Dr. Andrew Copas.
Jonathan will present the dissertation entitled “Statistical Methods for Network Data”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. JP Onnela, and includes Dr. Edoardo Airoldi, and Dr. Rui Wang.
