Biostatistics & Computational Biology Branch
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2019-2024
Presentation Type | Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Affiliation | Group/ Department | Seminar Title | Host(s) |
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BCBB Seminar | November 6, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D250 / Virtual | Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez, Ph.D. | NIMHD Division of Intramural Research | Genetic Confounding in Health Disparities Research | Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | October 9, 2024 | 12:30 p.m. | Rodbell B | Danyu Lin, Ph.D. | University of NC at Chapel Hill | Evaluating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines | Leping Li, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | September 11, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D250 / Virtual | Feng-Chang Lin, Ph.D. | University of NC at Chapel Hill | Research Scientist to Science Enabler: Highlights on a Journey Through Career Pathways in Science | Leping Li, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | August 7, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D250 / Virtual | Kai Kang, Ph.D. | MIT CSAIL | Title-inferring Sample Level Cell Type-specific Transcriptomic Patterns From Mixture Observations | Leping Li, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | July 24, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Room 250 / Virtual | Noffisat O. Oki, Ph.D. | National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research | Research Scientist to Science Enabler: Highlights on a Journey Through Career Pathways in Science | Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | July 17, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Virtual | Jamie Morton, Ph.D. | CEO GUTZ Analytics | Multi-level Analysis of the Gut–brain Axis Shows Autism Spectrum Disorder-associated Molecular and Microbial Profiles | Shyamal Peddada, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | April 23, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Virtual | James Zou, Ph.D. | Standford University | Biomedicine in the Age of Generative AI | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | April 11, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D350 | Shelley Liu, Ph.D. | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | Quantifying cumulative burden scores using item response theory: Novel applications to environmental mixtures, exposomics, and neurobehavior | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D250 | Huilin Li, Ph.D. | NYU Langone Health | BCBB | Casual Mediation Analysis in Microbiome Study | Shyamal Peddada, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, February 21, 2024 | 1:00 p.m. | Room D450 | Lauren McIntyre, Ph.D. | University of Florida | BCBB | Experimental Design and Analysis in Metabolomics | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, January 24, 2024 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D250 | Jiebiao Wang, Ph.D. | University of Pittsburgh | BCBB | Cellular Deconvolution with Single-cell DNA methylation and RNA Sequencing References | Shyamal Peddada, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, December 13, 2023 | 9:00 a.m. | Room D340 | Sandra Safo, Ph.D. | BCBB | Interpretable Deep Learning Methods for Multiview Learning | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. | |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 9:30 a.m. | Room D350 | Hong Yuan Cao, Ph.D. | Florida State University | Department of Statistics | A Powerful Empirical Bayes Approach for High Dimensional Replicability Analysis | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D350 | David Dunson, Ph.D. | Duke University | Arts and Science | Inferring Synergistic and Antagonistic Interactions in Mixtures of Exposures | Shyamal Peddada, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Rodbell A | Qin Ma, Ph.D. | Ohio State University | Biomedical Informatics | Graph Representation Learning of Single-Cell Omics Data | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, July 11, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D350 | Boyuan Chen, Ph.D. | Duke University | Computer Science | General-Purpose Al for Humans, Robots, and Science | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, June 7, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Room D350 | Andrew Gentles | Stanford University | Pathology | Computing the Spatial Architecture of Tumors and Its Effects on Immunotherapy Response | Shyamal Peddada, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, May 16, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Zhengwu Zhang | UNC Chapel Hill | Statistics and Operations Research | Statistical Analysis of Human Brain Connectomes | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | 10:45 a.m. | Rodbell B | Paul Albert, Ph.D. | NCI | BCBB | A Latent Functional Approach for Modeling the Effects of Multidimensional Biomarker Exposures on Disease Risk Prediction: Applications to Chemical Mixture Analyses | Shanshan Zhao, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Thursday, March 14, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Lu Tang, Ph.D. | University of Pittsburgh | Department of Biostatistics | RISE: Robust Individual Decision Learning with Sensitive Variables | Shyamal Peddada, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, February 21, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Danping Liu, Ph.D. | NCI | Biostatistics Branch | Challenges and Developments in Cancer Outcome Ascertainment: Applications in the U.S. Radiologic Technologists Study | Shanshan Zhao, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Thursday, January 26, 2023 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Shyamal Peddada, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | A Novel Statistical Methodology Helps Reveal Previously Unknown Associations Among Infant Gut Microbiota During the First Year After Birth | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, November 15, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Stuart Chalk, Ph.D. | University of North Florida | Chemistry | SciData: Semantic Representation of Scientific Data | Johnson Dylan, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, September 13, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Matthew Wheeler, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | ToxicR and Bayesian Dose-Response | Komlan Atitey, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, August 16, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom / Rodbell A | Zhen Chen, Ph.D. | NICHD | BCBB | Regularized Mediation Analyses With Multiple Exposures | Shanshan Zhao, Ph.D. |
BCBB /CRB Seminar | Thursday, June 9, 2022 | 2:00 p.m. | Zoom | Daniel Rotroff, Ph.D., M.S.P.H. | Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic | Quantitative Health Sciences | Leaving Data on the Table: Longitudinal Approaches for Precision Medicine in Complex Diseases | Janet Hall, M.D., M.S. and Alison Mostinger-Reif, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, May 17, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Lauren J. Beesley, Ph.D. | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Analytics, Intelligence and Technology Division: Information Systems and Modeling (A-1)/Computer, Computational and Statistical Sciences Division: Statistical Sciences (CCS-6) | Statistical Inference for Association Studies Using EHR: Handling Both Selection Bias and Outcome Misclassification | Ann Von Holle, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, April 12, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Stefan Bekiranov, Ph.D. | UVA | Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics | Development and Assessment of a Quantum Genomic Classifier | Raul Mendez-Giraldez, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, February 8, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Fei Zou, Ph.D. | UNC | Biostatistics/Genetics | Semiparametric Deep Learning Based Comparative Effectiveness Analysis and Permutation-based Feature Importance Test | Leping Li, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, January 11, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Shanshan Zhao, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | Identifying Multivariate Growth Trajectories via the Bayesian Tensor Mixture Models | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Monday , December 13, 2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | John House, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | Mapping Genetic Determinants of Blood Glucose Control in The Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Study Group (ACCORD) | Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, November 30, 2021 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Komlan Atitey, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | MUBCOVID: A MUltiscale-MUltivariate-MUltilevel Benchmarking and Computational framework for Optimal Visualization and Interpretability of high-dimensional separable Data | Raul Mendez-Giraldez, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, October 26, 2021 | 10:00 a.m. | Zoom | Min Shi, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | Statistical Genetics: Methods and Applications | Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, December 15, 2020 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Fei Wang, Ph.D. | Cornell University - Weill Cornell Medicine | Graduate School of Medical Science | Integrative Mining of Multi-Modal Health Data | Leping Li, Ph.D. and Yuanyuan Li, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Dmitri Zaykin, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | QTL-COVA: Covariance Quantitative Trait Loci Approach for Finding Gene by Environment and Gene by Gene Interactions | Pierre Bushel, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Wednesday, September 29, 2020 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | Knockoff Boosted Trees for Model-free Variable Selection | Rita Ross |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, August 11, 2020 | 11:00 a.m. | Zoom | Benedict Anchang, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | Single-cell Analysis of Normal and Perturbed Dynamic Biological Systems | Pierre Bushel, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, February 18, 2020 | 11:00 a.m. | D350 | Benjamin Callahan, Ph.D. | North Carolina State University | Population Health and Pathobiology | Towards Precise, Accurate and Reproducible Measurement of the Microbiome | Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, January 21, 2020 | 11:00 a.m. | D350 | Arnab Maity, Ph.D. | North Carolina State University | Statistics | Robust Kernel Association Testing (RobKAT) | Pierre Bushel, Ph.D. |
Friday Lunch | Friday, January 10, 2020 | 12:30 p.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Minjian Chen, Ph.D. | NIEHS | EB | The Maternal Exposome and Metabolome Wide Associational Study During Pregnancy | Stephanie London, M.D., Dr.P.H. |
Friday Lunch | Friday, December 6, 2019 | 12:30 p.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Les Klimczak, Ph.D. | NIEHS | Integrative Bioinformatics Group | Predictive Biological Spectra Based on Deep Learning. Part I: Using NMR to Predict Air Pollen Counts | Jason Li, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, November 19, 2019 | 11:00 a.m. | D350 | Terry Furey, Ph.D. | University of North Carolina | Genetics | Using the Collaborative Cross to Determine Genetic Contributors to Baseline and Ozone-induced Molecular Phenotypes | Pierre Bushel, Ph.D. |
Friday Lunch | Friday, November 1, 2019 | 12:30 p.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Lawrence Carin, Ph.D., M.Sc.Eng. | Duke University | Electrical and Computer Engineering | On Neural Network Models for Modeling Dynamic Data | Yuanyuan Li, Ph.D. |
Friday Lunch | Friday, October 11, 2019 | 12:30 p.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Angel D. Davalos, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | Clustering With the Bayesian Mixture Model | Shanshan Zhao, Ph.D. |
BCBB Seminar | Tuesday, October 8, 2019 | 11:00 a.m. | D450 | Vasileios Maroulas, Ph.D. | University of Tennessee | Mathematics | Statistics, Topology and Biology Data | Kai Kang, Ph.D. |
Friday Lunch | Friday, September 27, 2019 | 12:30 p.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Clare Weinberg, Ph.D. | NIEHS | BCBB | Familial Correlation in the Age at Onset of Breast Cancer | |
Friday Lunch | Friday, August 30, 2019 | 12:30 p.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Frarida S. Akhtari, Ph.D.-candidate | North Carolina State University | Bioinformatics | Dose Response Analyses in Cell Line Models for Cancer Pharmacogenomics | Alison Motsinger-Reif, Ph.D. |
Friday Lunch | Friday, August 23, 2019 | 12:30 p.m. | Lake View Conference Room | Ozzy Lozoya, Ph.D. | NIEHS | Environmental Epigenomics and Disease Group | Single-cell Sequencing for All: Making the Most of the Cost | Pierre Bushel, Ph.D. |