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Department of Biostatistics Weekly Seminar

The department hosts weekly seminars and workshops for persons interested in applied statistics, statistical theory, epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials methodology, statistical computing, statistical graphics, and R. We maintain lists of interest groups, and seminar announcements are emailed as appropriate.

LOCATION: Seminars will be either virtual or hybrid, and details will be noted in the itinerary of the speaker.
TIME: 1:30-2:30pm on the dates indicated in the calendar below (unless otherwise noted).

Contact Amir Asiaee for information about the seminars and their content.
Contact Cierra Streeter for admin needs/information, such as edits to the wiki page, zoom links, room info, travel info, etc.

Fall 2022

August	Title	Presenter
August 03	Summer Break		edit
August 10	Summer Break		edit
August 17	A novel framework to quantify uncertainty in peptide-tandem mass spectrum matches with application to nanobody peptide identification	Chris McKennan	edit
August 24 (12:15 pm - 1:15 pm)	Reference models in variable selection	Aki Vehtari	edit
August 31	Molecular Biology on Hyperspheres	Kevin Coombes	edit

September	Title	Presenter	Venue
September 07	Estimation of cell type composition and cell type aware differential expression analysis	Wei Sun	Virtual	edit
September 14	Building Better Clinical Trials Through Disease Progression Modeling in GNE Myopathy	Melanie Quintana	Virtual	edit
September 21	Constrained Maximum Likelihood-Based Mendelian Randomization Robust to both Correlated and Uncorrelated Pleiotropic Effects	Wei Pan	Virtual	edit
September 28	Generalized Methods of Moments for Data Integration Across Disparate Studies	Nilanjan Chatterjee	Virtual	edit

October	Title	Presenter	Venue
October 05	Multiwave validation sampling for error-prone electronic health records	Bryan Shepherd	Virtual	edit
October 12	Two-phase sampling with interval-censored data	Qingning Zhou	Virtual	edit
October 19	Some statistical analyses on polygenic risk scores: genetic applications of random matrix theory	Bingxin Zhao	Hybrid	edit
October 26 (1:15-2:15 pm)	Causality and Dynamical Systems	Jonas Martin Peters	Virtual	edit

November	Title	Presenter	Venue
November 02	Computational analysis of tumor single-cell sequencing data	Niko Beerenwinkel	Virtual	edit
November 09	Causal Inference with Continuous Multiple Time Point Interventions	Michael Schomaker	Virtual	edit
November 16	Integration of single-cell RNA-sequencing data and its extended application	Yang Liu	Virtual	edit
November 23	No Seminar - Thanksgiving			edit
November 30	Towards Markov Properties for Differential-Algebraic Equations	Joris Mooij	Virtual	edit

December	Title	Presenter	Venue
December 07	Monitoring the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico	Rafael Irizarry	Hybrid	edit
December 14	Pan-cancer immunogenomic analysis	Jing Yang	Hybrid	edit
December 21	No Seminar: Winter Break			edit
December 28	No Seminar: Winter Break			edit

Spring 2023

January	Title	Presenter	Venue
Wednesday, January 11	Targeting underrepresented populations in precision medicine through multi-source data integration	Tian Gu	Virtual	edit
Friday, January 13	The Blessings of Federation for Causal Inference	Larry Han	Hybrid	edit
Wednesday, January 18	Combining Causal and Joint Modeling Methods to Address Practical Issues in HIV Clinical Trials	Bryan Blette	Hybrid	edit
Friday, January 20	Novel Nonparametric Random-Forests-based and Semiparametric Models for Between-subject Attributes: Applications to Survey and Observational Studies and Beyond	Tuo Lin	Hybrid	edit
Wednesday, January 25	Automating psychiatric distress screening in ophthalmology using electronic health records: A case study in scalable computational algorithms for Bayesian inference	Samuel Berchuck	Hybrid	edit

February	Title	Presenter	Venue
Wednesday, February 1	Model-robust and efficient covariate adjustment for cluster-randomized experiments	Bingkai Wang	Hybrid	edit
Friday, February 3, at 2:00 p.m.	Mitigating site effects in covariance for machine learning in neuroimaging data	Andrew Chen	Hybrid	edit
Wednesday, February 8	Causal methods for Treatment Effect Estimation and Heterogeneity Assessment Using Real-world Data	Tat Thang Vo	Hybrid	edit
Wednesday, February 15	A Bayesian Gaussian Process for Estimating a Causal Exposure Response Curve in Environmental Epidemiology	Boyu Ren	Hybrid	edit
Wednesday, February 22	Heterogeneity Analysis on Multi-state Brain Functional Connectivity and Adolescent Neurocognition	Yize Zhao	Hybrid	edit
Friday, February 24 at 9am	Semi-Parametric Sensitivity Analysis for Trials with Irregular and Informative Assessment Times	Dan Scharfstein	Hybrid	edit

March	Title	Presenter	Venue
March 01	A Two-Stage Least Squares-Based Sensitivity Analysis Approach for Assessing the Role of Engagement with Text Message-Delivered Interventions	Jamie Joseph	Virtual	edit
March 08	No Seminar: Spring Break			edit
March 15	Adventures in modelling highly multiplexed imaging data	Kieran Campbell	Virtual	edit
March 22	No Seminar: ENAR			edit
March 29	Scalable statistical methods and software for single-cell and spatial data science	Stephanie Hicks	Hybrid	edit

April	Title	Presenter	Venue
April 05	Faculty Lightning Talks	Department Faculty	Virtual	edit
April 12	Causal Inference and Data Fusion	Elias Bareinboim	Virtual	edit
April 19	Beyond the Codes: Analyzing Multimorbidity Patterns in EHRs	Yaomin Xu	Hybrid	edit
April 26	Improved Doubly Robust Estimation of Cox Regression Parameters Under Left Truncation	Sharon Xiangwen Xie	Virtual	edit

May	Title	Presenter	Venue
May 03	Long-term effects of DAA treatment in HIV and HCV co-infected individuals: what questions remain and how best to answer them?	Sara Lodi	Hybrid	edit
May 10	No Seminar: Summer Break			edit
May 17	No Seminar: Summer Break			edit
May 24	No Seminar: Summer Break			edit
May 31	No Seminar: Summer Break			edit

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