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 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
Yige will present the dissertation entitled “Toward Robust and Transparent Estimation of the Effects of Time-Dependent Interventions". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. José Zubizarreta, and includes Dr. Miguel Hernán and Dr. Tyler VanderWeele.
Thesis Defense: Jessica Petrochuk Time: Monday May 1, 2024, at 12:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 205 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97662851929 Jessica will present the thesis titled “Foundation Model Based Prediction of Lung Cancer Survival Using Temporal Changes in Dual Time Point CT Scans”. The thesis committee is chaired by Raymond Mak and includes Benjamin Kann and … Continue reading "Thesis Defense – Jessica Petrochuk"
Amy Zhou, PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Comparison of Outcome-Dependent Sampling for Semi-Competing Risks Abstract: Outcome-dependent sampling is a commonly used design tool to collect otherwise unavailable information on a subset of participants rather than all participants. This is particularly useful in research settings where one or more covariates of interest may not … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar"
Thesis Defense: Yuting Liu Time: Friday May 3, 2024, at 10:00 AM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Yuting will present the thesis titled “A machine learning model for large-scale discovery of protein interactions with AlphaFold2”. The thesis committee is chaired by Sharad Ramanathan and includes Vlad Denic and John Quackenbush.
Eric will present the dissertation entitled “Statistical Methods for the Study of Effect Modification and Spatial Causal Inference: Theory and Applications”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. José Zubizarreta, and includes Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee and Dr. Andrea Rotnitzky.
Thesis Defense: Pluto Zhang Time: Friday May 3, 2024, at 11:00 AM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Pluto will present the thesis titled “Statistical, Machine and Deep Learning Models for Characterizing Self-Reported Health Outcomes from the American Time Use Survey (Eating and Health Module)”. The thesis committee is chaired by Erin Lake and includes Shilpa … Continue reading "Thesis Defense – Pluto Zhang"
Sean will present the dissertation entitled "Inferring Conditional Dependencies in Observational Studies: Nuisance Function Tuning and Transfer Learning". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee, and includes Dr. James Robins, Dr. Brent Coull, Dr. Samuel Kou, and Dr. Rui Duan.
Kevin will present the dissertation entitled "Causal Inference Methods for Evaluation of Large-Scale Environmental Policy Effects under Complex Treatment Interference". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rachel Nethery, and includes Dr. Francesca Dominici, Dr. Andrew Beam, and Dr. Falco Bargagli Stoffi.
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: 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.
Thesis Defense: Ruixin Chen Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93482835782 Ruixin will present the thesis titled “Understanding Tissue Permissivity in Cancer Development”. The thesis committee is chaired by Kevin Haigis and includes Martin Hemberg and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense: Xiaohe Tian Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97604026268 Xiaohe will present the thesis titled “Deciphering the Effect of chr17q21.31 Haplotype … Continue reading "Thesis Defense – Xiaohe Tian"
We’re delighted to welcome everyone for the sixth annual Harvard Chan Microbiome in Public Health center symposium, which this year will be run in tandem with a partner Dana-Farber / … Continue reading "HCMPH Center Symposium: The Microbiome and Cancer"
Xiuwei Zhang Assistant Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Cell dynamics across various time scales and spatial coordinates In biological processes like development and disease … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"
