Conferences & Events
iBRIGHT 2019 Conference
Nov. 11-13, 2019
Houston, Texas
Chairs: Kim-Anh Do, Ph.D. (MD Anderson);
Christina Kendziorski, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Xihong Lin, Ph.D. (Harvard)
Organizing Committee: Veera Baladandayuthapani, Ph.D. (University of Michigan); Liang Li, Ph.D. (MD Anderson); Jeffrey Morris, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania); Christine Peterson, Ph.D. (MD Anderson); Sanjay Shete, Ph.D. (MD Anderson); Peng Wei, Ph.D. (MD Anderson); Ying Yuan, Ph.D. (MD Anderson)
Theme: Cancer Biostatistics, Clinical Trials, Statistical Genetics, and Integrative Biostatistics Methods for High-throughput Omic Technologies (including Microbiomics)
Visit us online for details at biostatistics.mdanderson.org/iBRIGHT2019.
biostatistics.mdanderson.org/iBRIGHT2019
General Event Room Location Legend
- ACB1.2345 is the Telehealth Conference Room on the first floor of the Ambulatory Clinic Building / Lowry and Peggy Mays Clinic
- ACB1.2325 is a room adjacent to the Telehealth Conference Room
- CPB8.3059 is a conference room on the eighth floor of the Cancer Prevention Building / Dan L. Duncan Building
- FC1.2002 is the AT&T Classroom on the first floor of the John Mendelsohn Faculty Center
- FCT conference rooms are in the T. Boone Pickens Academic Tower
Guest Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
December 18, 2019
10:00-11:00 AM
FC 1.2002
Yanqing Sun, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
January 15, 2020
10:00-11:00 AM
FCT 2.4144 (A)
Mary Redman
Associate Member
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
February 12, 2020
10:00-11:00 AM
FCT 3 (3 and 6)
Susan Ellenberg, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
March 11, 2020
10:00-11:00 AM
FCT 3 (2 and 7)
Zhezhen Jin, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Columbia University
New York, NY
April 15, 2020
10:00-11:00 AM
FC 1.2002
Mi-Ok Kim, Ph.D.
Professor of the Division of Biostatistics
University of California - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
April 29, 2020
10:00-11:00 AM
FCT 3 (2 and 7)
Lisa LaVange, Ph.D.
Professor
University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health
Chapel Hill, NC
May 6, 2020
10:00-11:00 AM
FCT 2.4152
Ji-Hyune Lee, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Division of Quantitative Sciences
University of Florida Health Cancer Center
Gainesville, FL
May 20, 2020
10:00-11:00 AM
FCT 2.4144
Shing Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Columbia University
New York, NY
Past Seminars
October 9, 2019
Jinbo Chen, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Novel Two-phase Sampling Designs for Studying Binary Outcomes
April 10, 2019
Noah Simon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Optimizing Designs for Adaptive Enrichment Trials
April 24, 2019
Susan Halabi, Ph.D.
Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
May 8, 2019
Lu Tian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California
June 12, 2019
Seunggeun Shawn Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
March 20, 2019
Wei Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Member
Fred Huthinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
February 20, 2019
Lorenzo Trippa, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston, Massachusetts
February 6, 2019
Sumithra J. Mandrekar, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
Cancer Clinical Trials Infrastructure at the Mayo Clinic, and an Example of use of Data from Multiple Clinical Trials to inform Clinical Trial Conduct
January 9, 2019
Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Ph.D.
Director of Biostatistics, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
Optimizing Designs for Adaptive Enrichment Trials
April 10, 2019
10-11 a.m.
FCT 3, Rooms 2 and 7
Noah Simon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington Optimizing Designs for Adaptive Enrichment Trials
April 24, 2019
10-11 a.m.
FCT 2.4144, Room A
Susan Halabi, Ph.D.
Professor, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
May 8, 2019
Lu Tian, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California
June 12, 2019
Seunggeun Shawn Lee, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Biostatis
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
October 9, 2019
10:00-11:00 AM
FC 1.2002
Jinbo Chen, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Novel Two-phase Sampling Designs for Studying Binary Outcomes
November 14, 2018
Matthew Reimherr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
November 7, 2018
Haitao Chu, MD, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Bayesian HSROC Model for Network Meta-analysis of Diagnostic Tests
November 5, 2018
Himel Mallick, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Harvard
Boston, Massachusetts
Multi'omic Population Studies of the Human Microbiome in Health and Disease
September 26, 2018
Douglas Schaubel, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
The University of Michigan School of Public Health
Semiparametric regression methods for temporal processes subject to multiple sources of censoring
June 6, 2018
Andrew G. Chapple, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Louisiana State University School of Public Health
Baton Rouge, LA
A hybrid, phase I-II/III clinical trial design allowing for dose re-optimization in phase III.
May 16, 2018
Gary Chan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Washington School of Public Health
Seattle, Washington
Empirical balancing scores and balancing weights
May 2, 2018
Philip Rausch
Research Scholar, Department of Psychology
Humboldt University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Introducing the BayesFMM package for R and a novel approach to writing R wrappers for running MATLAB® code
March 14, 2018
Irina Gaynanova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Structural learning and integrative decomposition of multi-view data
March 7, 2018
Martin Lindquist, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Brain signatures and models in translational neuroimaging
February 21, 2018
Laura Hatfield, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Methods for difference-in-difference studies
January 31, 2018
Mithat Gönen, Ph.D.
Chief of Biostatistics Service
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
Clinical trial designs for precision medicine: Baskets, umbrellas, and still no free lunch
Dec. 13, 2017
Ganggang Xu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Binghamton University, SUNY
Binghamton, New York
Quasi-likelihood for bivariate point processes
December 6, 2017
Fei Zou, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Bagging and deep learning in optimal individualized treatment rules and semiparametric regression modeling
November 10, 2017
Jianqing Fan, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Robust inference for high-dimensional data with application to false discovery rate control
October 25, 2017
Michael C. Wu, Ph.D.
Associate Member, Biostatistics & Biomathematics Program
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Public Health Sciences Division
Seattle, Washington
Statistical methods for correlating microbiomic and other -omic data
September 20, 2017
Daniel Kowal, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Dynamic shrinkage process
May 16, 2018
Gary Chan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics
University of Washington School of Public Health
Seattle, Washington
Empirical balancing scores and balancing weights
May 2, 2018
Philip Rausch
Research Scholar, Department of Psychology
Humboldt University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Introducing the BayesFMM package for R and a novel approach to writing R wrappers for running MATLAB® code
March 14, 2018
Irina Gaynanova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas
Structural learning and integrative decomposition of multi-view data
Biostatistics Grand Rounds
Sept. 25, 2019
10:00 - 11:00 am
FCT 2.4144 (Room A)
Genevera Allen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Statistics and Computer Science
Rice University
Dynamic and Interactive Clustering with a Discussion on the Reproducibility of Machine Learning Results in Medicine
Nov. 12, 2018
Doug Schaubel, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
The University of Michigan School of Public Health
Sept. 12, 2018
James Long, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Parameter estimation for approximate regression models with heteroskedastic errors
Dec. 7, 2017
Yang Ni, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Statistics and Data Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
Integrative gene networks: Precision medicine and public health
Nov. 30, 2017
Zihuai He, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Department of Biostatistics
Columbia University
New York, New York
A semi-supervised approach for predicting organism-level and cell-type-/tissue-specific functional consequences of non-coding variation
Oct. 11, 2017
Hongtu Zhu, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
Statistical challenges, opportunities and strategies in large-scale medical studies
December 7, 2017
Yang Ni, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Statistics and Data Science
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas
Sept. 12, 2017
Donald A. Berry, Ph.D.
Professor of Biostatistics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Rigor and reproducibility
Feb. 23, 2017
Guanhua Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, Tennessee
Statistical learning for heterogeneous biomedical data
Feb. 15, 2017
Yong Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lessons from integrating biomedical data
Feb. 8, 2017
Dongjun Chung, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
The Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
GPA Suite: A comprehensive toolkit for prioritization of GWAS results and investigation of pleiotropic architecture
Dec. 20, 2016
Yifei Sun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland
Recurrent marker process with application to health economics
Nov. 29, 2016
Abhra Sarkar, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Statistical issues and methods for research in nutrition and neuroscience
Biostatistics Faculty Candidate Presentations
July 17, 2019
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
FC1.2002
David King, Ph.D.
Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Indiana University
Methods for Disease Diagnosis Utilizing Multiple Biomarker Responses
June 25, 2019
Huirong Zhu, Ph.D.
Research Statistician, Texas Children's Hospital
February 18, 2019
Hai Shu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Extracting Common and Distinctive Signals from High-dimensional Datasets
February 11, 2019
Ryan Sun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
January 30, 2019
Ruitao Lin, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Time-to-event model-assisted designs to accelerate and optimize early-phase immunotherapy trials
January 28, 2019
Nabihah Tayob, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Biomarker Screening Algorithms for the Improved Early Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Chalk Talk
The design and implementation of a two-stage validation study for a panel of salivary biomarkers in Sjögren’s Syndrome
January 22, 2019
Nicholas Henderson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects with censored data via fully nonparametric Bayesian accelerated failure time models
Chalk Talk
Overview of current research and directions for the future research
Chalk Talk
5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
FCT 4.6057, Biostatistics Conference Room
Ryan Sun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
FCT 2.4144, Room A