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Webinar: Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘Understanding the epigenetic gene regulation with Systems Biology’
Academic Support Building (ASB) Room 2200G 90 Hope Drive, Hershey, PA, United StatesPresented by: Yasin Uzun, MSc, PhD, Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine
Epidemiology Seminar – ‘Dietary inflammatory potential and breast cancer-related lymphedema among breast cancer survivors’
Academic Support Building (ASB) Room 2102 90 Hope Drive, HersheyPresented by: Hongke Wu, MD, MPH, Epidemiology PhD student, Department of Public Health Sciences
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘Detecting high-dimensional association in large scale genomic data’
Academic Support Building (ASB) Room 2200G 90 Hope Drive, Hershey, PA, United StatesPresented by: Qunhua Li, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Statistics, Associate Chair, Bioinformatics & Genomics Graduate Program, Penn State
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘Model Averaging Beats Model Selection (Asymptotically and Predictively)’
WebconferencePresented by: Bertrand S. Clarke, B.Sc., PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘Microbiome Data Science – Phylogenetic Tree, Bacterial Growth Rate and Biosynthetic Gene Clusters’
WebconferencePresented by: Dr. Hongzhe Lee, PhD, Perelman Professor of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Director, Center for Statistics in Big Data, Vice Chair for Research Integration, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania
Epidemiology Seminar – ‘Multidimensional Sleep Health in Adolescents: Definition, Construct Validity, and Associations with Emotional Well-Being’
WebconferencePresented by: Casandra Nyhuis, MHS, Doctoral Student in Epidemiology, Penn State College of Medicine
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘A new Bayesian lasso and ridge regression with a practically meaningful parameterization and a simple weakly informative prior’
WebconferencePresented by: Dr. Jiangang "Jason" Liao, PhD, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘OTTERS: A powerful framework integrating summary-level molecular QTL data with GWAS data’
WebconferencePresented by: Dr. Jingjing Yang, Ph.D., Center for Computational and Quantitative Genetics, Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine About the presentation: Existing transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) tools require individual-level genetic and transcriptomic data from a reference source like GTEx (n=~100s) to estimate eQTL effect sizes. To extend the TWAS approach to […]
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘Understanding the sequence and chromatin determinants of transcription factor binding’
WebconferencePresented by: Shaun Mahony, PhD, Associate Professors of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State University
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘Novel Clinical Outcome Prediction Models Using Heterogeneous Electronic Health Record data’
WebconferencePresented by: Qing Li, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering (IMSE), Iowa State University
Epidemiology Seminar – ‘Exploring Predictors of Asthma Treatment Success’
WebconferencePresented by: Callie Howells, MSPH, Epidemiology PhD Student, Department of Public Health Sciences To join via Zoom, visit https://pshealth.zoom.us/j/96144595912 To join via the phone, dial 929-205-6099 The meeting ID is 961 4459 5912 and the passcode: 669609
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘Novel Clinical Outcome Prediction Models Using Heterogeneous Electronic Health Record data’
WebconferencePresented by: Chen Hu, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Quantitative Sciences, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health About the presentation: For oncology clinical trials, time-to-event endpoints, such as overall survival or progression-free survival, are used widely as key endpoints and […]
Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Seminar – ‘A Bayesian Decision Framework for Optimizing Sequential Combination Antiretroviral Therapy in People with HIV’
WebconferencePresented by: Yanxun Xu, PhD, Associate Professor and Joseph & Suzanne Jenniches Faculty Scholar in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University About the presentation: Numerous adverse effects (e.g., depression) have been reported for combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) despite its remarkable success on viral suppression in people with HIV (PWH). To […]