Archive of Seminars
2011 Seminars
July 6, 2011
Ilya Shmulevich, Ph.D.
Professor, Computational Biology
Institute for Systems Biology
Seattle, Washington
Molecular Networks in Cancer
June 29, 2011
Wei Lin, M.S.
Department of Mathematics
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
High-Dimensional Variable Selection in Additive Hazards Regression
June 29, 2011
Andrew W. Dowsey, Ph.D.
Independent Research Fellow
Imperial College London
A Sparse Signal Restoration Framework for Simultaneous Baseline Estimation, Deisotoping and Charge State Deconvolution of Complex Mass Spectra
June 1, 2011
Jill P. Mesirov, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Machine Learning Approaches for Genomic Medicine
June 1, 2011
Guosheng Yin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
The University of Hong Kong
Two-stage Dose Finding for Cytostatic Agents in Phase I Clinical Trials
May 20, 2011
W. Sabrina Lin, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Coalition Formation Game: A New Tool for Classification
May 19, 2011
Mark Kenneth Transtrum, Ph.D.
Department of Physics
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Sloppy Models, Information Geometry, and Data Fitting
May 11, 2011
Edoardo M. Airoldi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Analysis and Design of RNA Sequencing Experiments
May 4, 2011
Maiying Kong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
Modeling and Testing Treated Tumor Growth Using Cubic Smoothing Splines
April 20, 2011
Masoud Asgharian, Ph.D.
Professor, The Department of Mathematics and Statistics
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Survival Analysis and Length-biased Sampling
April 6, 2011
Jaeil Ahn, M.S.
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biostatistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bayesian Modeling of Epidemiologic Data under Complex Sampling Schemes
March 23, 2011
Thang Vu
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
The Bootstrap in Supervised Learning and Its Applications in Genomics and Proteomics
March 17, 2011
Kosuke Yoshihara, M.D., Ph.D.
Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
Niigata University, Niigata City, Japan
Gene Expression Profile for Predicting Survival in Patients with Advanced-stage Serous Ovarian Cancer
March 16, 2011
Genevera I. Allen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Generalized Least Squares Matrix Decomposition
March 15, 2011
Qinglin Pei, M.S.
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Statistical Models and SNP Detection Methods for Flash Sequencing
March 2, 2011
Wei Pan, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Why to Ignore Correlations: Applications to Genetic Association Analysis
February 28, 2011
Chiranjit Mukherjee, M.S.
Ph.D. Student, Department of Statistical Science
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Spatially-varying SAR Models and Bayesian Inference for High-resolution Lattice Data
February 25, 2011
Sang Mee Lee
Ph.D. Candidate, Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Likelihood-based Approach to Gene Set Enrichment Analysis with a Finite Mixture Model.
February 24, 2011
Siyuan Zheng, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Exploring Molecular Mechanisms of Diseases Using a Systems Biology Approach
February 18, 2011
Chaeryon Kang
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Change-line Classification and Regression for Chemical Toxicity Analysis
February 11, 2011
Soyoung Ryu
Department of Statistics
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
A Statistical Approach to Peptide Identification from Clustered Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data
February 2, 2011
Ick Hoon Jin
Ph.D. Student, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Use of SAMC for Bayesian Analysis of Statistical Models with Intractable Normalizing Constants
January 12, 2011
Francesco Claudio Stingo, Ph.D.
Post-Doc Instructor, Department of Statistics
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Incorporating Biological Information into Linear Models: A Bayesian Approach to the Selection of Pathways and Genes
2010 Seminars
November 29, 2010
Yolanda Gil, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Project Leader, Interactive Knowledge Research Group
Information Sciences Institute
University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA
Bringing Semantics to Computational Workflows: Reproducibility and Assistance for Complex Data Analysis
November 22, 2010
Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Columbia University, New York, New York
The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (pdf)
November 17, 2010
Menggang Yu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Hoosier Oncology Group Director for Biostatistics
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
Re-randomization Test for Clinical Trials Using Minimization for Unequal Allocation
November 3, 2010
Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics
MD Anderson Cancer Center
From Intensity to Counts: Statistical Issues in Next-generation Sequencing Data
November 1, 2010
Sanjay Shete, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Epidemiology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Estimation of Odds Ratios of Genetic Variants for the Secondary Phenotypes Associated with Primary Diseases: Association of CHRNA5-A3 Genetic Locus to Smoking
October 27, 2010
Ilya Kupershmidt
Cofounder and VP of Products
NextBio, Cupertino, CA
Making Sense of Your Data and Gaining Clinical Insights through NextBio's Integrative Genomics and Genetics Platform
October 19, 2010
Michael Ryan, Ph.D.
President and Bioinformatics Specialist
In Silico Solutions, Fairfax, VA
Founding Partner and Technical Consultant
Tiger Team Consulting, Fairfax, VA
Next-gen Splice Tool - Motivation and Concepts
October 6, 2010
Xuan Long Nguyen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Inference of Global Clusters from Locally Distributed Data
September 22, 2010
Peng Wei, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics
The University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas
Bayesian Joint Modeling of Multiple Gene Networks and Diverse Genomic Data
July 30, 2010
Guosheng Yin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
The University of Hong Kong
Fractional 3+3 Design with Late-onset Toxicity in Phase I Clinical Trials
July 23, 2010
Di Wu
Bioinformatics Division
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Analysis of Transcriptional Signatures Reveals the Cell of Origin for Breast Cancer Subtypes
July 7, 2010
Ana-Maria Staicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Spatially-correlated Multilevel Functional Data
May 24, 2010
Anatoly Ulyanov
Principal Research Investigator and Head of Bioinformatics Group
Sanofi-Aventis, Boston, Massachusetts
Data-driven Biomarker Discovery
May 19, 2010
Debajyoti Sinha, Ph.D.
Hobbs Endowed Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Median Regression in Survival Analysis via the Transform-both-sides Model
May 12, 2010
Carlos M. Carvalho, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois
Time-varying Predictive Systems
April 14, 2010
Yuan Ji, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bayesian Models for Genetic Pathways
March 31, 2010
Subharup Guha, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Posterior Simulation in Countable Mixture Models for Large Datasets
March 30, 2010
Shouhao Zhou
Department of Statistics
Columbia University, New York, New York
A New Bayesian Model Selection Criterion
March 29, 2010
Xiaobo Zhou, Ph.D.
Associate Member, The Center for Bioengineering and Informatics
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas
Associate Professor of Radiology
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
Imaging Informatics and Computational Systems Bioinformatics for Pathway Analysis and Optimal Drug Therapy
March 26, 2010
Yong Chen, M.A.
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Assessing Genetic Association in Case-control Studies with an Unmeasured Population Substructure
March 18, 2010
Hyungwon Choi, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Department of Pathology
University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Analysis of Protein-protein Interactome: Evaluation of Protein-protein Interactions from Label-free Quantitative Proteomics Data
March 16, 2010
Wenyi Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Genome Technology Center
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California
Statistical Methods for DNA Resequencing Analysis in Disease-gene Studies
March 15, 2010
Michele Guindani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
A Bayesian Discovery Procedure
March 12, 2010
Eugenia Buta
Department of Statistics
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Computational Approaches for Empirical Bayes Methods and Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis
March 10, 2010
Bo Hu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
Nonparametric multistate analysis of survival and longitudinal data
March 10, 2010
Brian P. Hobbs, M.S.
Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hierarchical power prior models for adaptive incorporation of historical information in clinical trials
February 26, 2010
Wook Yeon Hwang, M.S.
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Boosting methods for variable selection in high-dimensional sparse models
February 25, 2010
Peng Qiu, Ph.D.
Integrative Cancer Biology Program, Department of Radiology
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Discovering biological progression underlying microarray samples
February 24, 2010
Peter X. Song, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bayesian information model selection criteria in composite likelihood methodology with high-dimensional data
February 22, 2010
Hao Wu, M.S.
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Genomic “bump finding” from ChIP-chip data and DNA sequence
February 22, 2010
Anindya Bhadra, M.A.
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Iterated filtering and its application in modeling infectious disease dynamics
February 16, 2010
Ju Hee Lee, M.S.
Department of Statistics
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Minimally informative prior distributions for nonparametric Bayesian analysis
February 10, 2010
Sangbum Choi
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Semiparametric transformation models based on degradation processes
February 8, 2010
Qi Tang, M.S.
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
A new Bayesian variable selection method: Bayesian lasso with pseudo variables
February 1, 2010
Yoonsuh Jung, M.S.
Department of Statistics
The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Robust LASSO and efficient quantile regression through regularization of case-specific parameters
January 13, 2010
Seungbong Han, M.S.
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
A novel semiparametric method for modeling interval-censored data
January 13, 2010
Roel Verhaak, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Integration of genomic data from The Cancer Genome Atlas based on gene expression
2009 Seminars
December 7, 2009
Jianzhi George Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Systems Approaches to Genetics and Evolution
December 2, 2009
Chia-Cheng Chen, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Comparison of Intraclass Correlation Coefficient and Concordance Correlation Coefficient in Assessing Agreement
October 23, 2009
Simon Lunagomez, Ph.D.
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Geometric Representations of Hypergraphs for Prior Specification and Posterior Sampling
October 12, 2009
Wolfgang Maass, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Smart Drugs: Leveraging Ubiquitous Computing and Semantic Technologies in Healthcare Environments
October 7, 2009
Heejung Shim
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Bayesian Co-Estimation of Alignment and Tree
September 30, 2009
Rob Scharpf, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
A Multilevel Model to Address Batch Effects in Copy Number Estimation Using SNP Arrays
September 23, 2009
Riten Mitra
Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bayesian Models for Sequence-Based Nucleosome Detection
September 18, 2009
Ana Tereza Vasconcelos
Head, Bioinformatics Laboratory, National Laboratory of Scientific Computation
Petropolis, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Some Features of Genomics and Bioinformatics in Brazil
September 2, 2009
Carl Matthew DiCasoli
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bayesian Regression Methods for Crossing Survival Curves
July 15, 2009
Kevin Coombes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Is It Possible to Find Believable Clusters in Array Data?
June 24, 2009
Krishna Sankhavaram
Director, Research Information Systems
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Research Station, TREX, and Future Plans
June 22, 2009
Susan Tucker, Ph.D., Professor
Yuan Ji, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
BCB External Review – Reprise 3
Dr. Susan Tucker: Projects in Computational Biology
Dr. Yuan Ji: Bayesian Predictive Approaches in Bioinformatics and Translational Medicine
Dr. John Weinstein: Integrative Bioinformatics for Biomarker and Biosignature Discovery
June 15, 2009
Kevin Coombes, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Keith Baggerly, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Jonas Almeida, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
BCB External Review – Reprise 2
Dr. Kevin Coombes: Translational Bioinformatics: Bench to Bedside via Computer
Dr. Keith Baggerly: Forensic Bioinformatics and Reproducible Research
Dr. Jonas Almeida: Semantic Web and Cloud Computing
June 8, 2009
John Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chair
Shoudan Liang, Ph.D., Professor
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
BCB External Review – Reprise 1
Dr. John Weinstein: Overview of BCB, the Challenges We Face, and Our Future Plans
Dr. Shoudan Liang: Next-generation Sequencing Technology.
May 18, 2009
John Weinstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Into the Integromic Maelstrom: Merging Different Molecular Data Types for Biomarker Discovery
May 13, 2009
John Patrick Ferguson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Bayesian Alternatives to P-Values and Their Use in Selecting and Ranking Populations
April 23, 2009
Jordan Hiller
JMP Genomics Application Scientist
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina
Combined Analysis of Copy Number and Expression Data in JMP Genomics 4
April 15, 2009
Joseph C. Gardiner, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology and Chairperson, Department of Epidemiology
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Stochastic Models in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
April 6, 2009
Parsa Mirhaji, M.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Health Information Sciences
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
BLUE: Clinical Text Understanding Meets Translational Clinical Research, A Minimal Syntactic Semantic System for Biomedical Language Understanding and Extraction
April 1, 2009
Elena B. Elkin, Ph.D.
Assistant Attending Outcomes Research Scientist
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Geographic Access and the Use of Screening Mammography
March 19, 2009
Geert Molenberghs, Ph.D., and Geert Verbeke, Ph.D.
Professors, Interuniversity Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics
Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
On the Identifiability of the Random-Effects Distribution in Mixed Models
March 16, 2009
Edward Dougherty, Ph.D.
Robert M. Kennedy ’26 Chair, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
High-Throughput Genomics: Epistemological Impediments and the Promise of Systems-Based Medicine
March 11, 2009
Satoshi Morita
Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
A Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture Model for Platelet Derived Growth Factor Receptor Phosphorylation to Improve Estimation of Progression-Free Survival in Prostate Cancer
March 4, 2009
Murali Haran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania
Towards Automating MCMC Algorithms for Spatial Generalized Linear Models
February 23, 2009
Robin D. Dowell-Deen, D.Sc.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
From Genotype to Phenotype with Functional Genomics Comparisons
February 16, 2009
Ming Yuan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Sparse Gaussian Graphical Model Estimation Using l1 Regularization
February 9, 2009
Xiaoning Qian, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor (Statistics), Associate Research Scientist (Electrical Engineering), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Analysis and Control for Gene Regulatory Networks
February 2, 2009
Elizabeth Purdom, Ph.D.
NSF Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Statistical Problems in Estimating Alternative Splicing
January 26, 2009
Romesh C. Stanislaus, Ph.D.
Instructor, Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
MD Anderson Cancer Center
RPPAML/RIMS: A Metadata Format and an Information Management System for Reverse Phase Protein Arrays
January 7, 2009
Soma S. Dhavala
Graduate Student, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
A Bayesian Semiparametric Model to Analyze Discrete Gene-Expression Data
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