Department of Biostatistics

Tag: GWAS

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Colloquium & Career Chat w. Dr. Chiara Sabatti – 2/17

The Department will host Dr. Chiara Sabatti, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University on February 17th, 2022. Dr. Sabatti will meet with students and … Continue reading “Colloquium & Career Chat w. Dr. Chiara Sabatti – 2/17”

Postdoc Xihao Li Receives ASA SGG Student Paper Award

Congratulations to Postdoctoral Research Fellow Xihao Li recently participated in a Student Paper Award Competition for the 2022 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) and was selected to receive … Continue reading “Postdoc Xihao Li Receives ASA SGG Student Paper Award”

Researchers Accurately Flag More Deadly SARS-CoV-2 Variant

Professor Christoph Lange and Research Associate Georg Hahn are part of a team leading important research in the fight against COVID-19 by using methodology from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to identify a mutation in … Continue reading “Researchers Accurately Flag More Deadly SARS-CoV-2 Variant”

Xihong Lin Receives Boston University’s L. Adrienne Cupples Award

via BU School of Public Health: The 2021 L. Adrienne Cupples Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service in Biostatistics, has been awarded to Xihong Lin, professor of biostatistics and … Continue reading “Xihong Lin Receives Boston University’s L. Adrienne Cupples Award”

PQG Conference: Deadline to Submit Abstracts – Oct 10th

The Program in Quantitative Genomics will host its 14th annual conference, “From Variants and Genes to Clinical Actions”, remotely via Zoom on November 5-6, 2020. Genome-wide association studies have been extremely successful … Continue reading “PQG Conference: Deadline to Submit Abstracts – Oct 10th”

Upcoming CBQG Thesis Defenses

**Contact Geryel Osorio Godoy for Zoom info 5/6/2020 at 3:00 pm Anna Booman Development of a Methodology to Assess Communication Skills in Angelman Syndrome Using Home-Based Video Recordings Thesis advisor: Dr. Wen-Hann … Continue reading “Upcoming CBQG Thesis Defenses”

Upcoming Seminars

Zack McCaw Searches for Signals in Big Data’s Noise

Zachary McCaw, one of this year’s Biostats graduates who was recently profiled by the School, says his time at Harvard Chan School made him a better problem solver, and has … Continue reading “Zack McCaw Searches for Signals in Big Data’s Noise”