For the benefit of the scientific community, and in response to the NIH’s series of initiatives to enhance rigor and reproducibility in research, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences has … Continue reading “NIGMS Recognizes Reproducible Science Course”
Congratulations to all involved with the successful launch of the new HarvardX Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) PH527X: Principles, Statistical and Computational Tools for Reproducible Science. Taught by instructors Curtis Huttenhower, … Continue reading “Launch of New Reproducible Science MOOC”
Himel Mallick, PhD is a recipient of the 2016 Science Unbound Foundation Best Paper Award for his paper ‘EM Adaptive LASSO—A Multilocus Modeling Strategy for Detecting SNPs Associated with Zero-inflated Count Phenotypes’, … Continue reading “Himel Mallick Receives Best Paper Award”
The Department would like to announce a new course in reproducible research that addresses the increasing need for scientific rigor and transparency in studies of biomedical data. Course content has … Continue reading “New Course in Reproducible Research”
On July 19-21, the six-week Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology culminated with an extremely successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, reunions, evaluation and celebration. All Summer Program … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium”
Friday, July 14th 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM FXB FXB-G10 Yered Pita-Juarez will present his dissertation on “Three Aspects of Gene Expression: Pathway Coexpression, Cross-Species Analysis of RNA-seq Data, and … Continue reading “Yered Pita-Juarez Dissertation Defense”
Speakers: Wendy Garrett, MD, PhD Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Department of Molecular Metabolism, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School “Pre-clinical … Continue reading “DF/HCC Cancer Data Sciences Lunch Workshop”
The Huttenhower Lab is seeking a Research Associate to lead the group’s bioinformatics center for microbiome analyses of type 1 diabetes in the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). The successful … Continue reading “Huttenhower Lab Seeking Research Associate”
Ryan Sun Dissertation Defense Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 10:00 AM, Kresge 502 Ryan will present his dissertation on “Methods for High-Dimensional Inference in Genetic Association Studies”. His committee is chaired by Dr. Xihong … Continue reading “Upcoming Defense Schedule”
