Department of Biostatistics

Colloquia

Each colloquium will be held from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the department conference room, FC2.3031,
on the second floor of the Faculty Center.
Exceptions will be noted.
                          
January through April, 2003
DateSpeaker(s)Topic
 Thursday, January 9
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Sue Geller, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics
Professor of Veterinary Anatomy
& Public Health
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas

 

Variance stabilization, normalization,
and power calculations
of microarray data
with application to autism

 Thursday, January 16
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Rui Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Molecular
and Human Genetics
Human Genome Sequencing Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

 

Initial sequence assembly
and analysis of the rat genome

 Thursday, January 16
4:00 PM
Michael Krams, Ph.D.
Pfizer Clinical Science, CNS
Pfizer Global R&D
Sandwich, Kent
United Kingdom

 

Innovative approaches
to clinical trial designs

 Wednesday, January 22
4:00 PM
Fernando A. Quintano, Ph.D.
Profesor Adjunto
Departamento de Estadística
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Santiago, Chile
 

Nonparametric Bayesian assessment
of the order of dependence
for binary sequences

 

 Thursday, January 23
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Xianghong Zhou, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Department of Biostatistics
Harvard University
School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts
 

Computational analysis of cellular systems:
functional study of the transcriptome
and cell classification with the proteome

 

 Friday, January 24
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Jing Qin, Ph.D.
Assistant Attending Biostatistician
Department of Epidemiology
and Biostatistics

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
 

Using a mixture model
for finding informative genes
in microarray studies

 

 Tuesday through Friday
January 28 - 31
Bayesian Biostatistics
Short Course and Symposium
 

Bayesian Biostatistics:
Introduction and Recent Advances

 

 Wednesday, February 5 Michael Kattan, Ph.D.
Asst Attending Outcomes Research Scientist
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York
 

Nomograms for cancer prediction

 

 Wednesday, February 19 Zhen Chen, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Biostatistics Branch
National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences

National Institutes of Health
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
 

Random effects selection
in linear mixed models

 

 Thursday, February 27th
1:00 PM
David R. Bickel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia
 

Interpreting microarray data:
cluster analysis and statistical detection
of differential gene expression

 

 Wednesday, March 5
9:00 AM
Guosheng Yin
Doctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
 

The mixed baseline
additive hazards model
for multivariate failure time data

 

 Thursday, March 6
4:00 PM
Wesley O. Johnson, Ph.D.
Edward Rotan Visiting Professor
Professor of Statistics
University of California, Davis
Davis, California
 

Semiparametric AFT models
for survival data

 

 Monday, March 10
11:00 AM
Lan Kong
Doctoral Student
Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
 

Analysis of survival data
from case-cohort studies
with semiparametric transformation models

 

 Thursday, March 13
4:00 PM
in SBC / Anderson Auditorium
Blue Zone, 2nd Floor
of the main hospital, Room B2.4750
Marie Davidian, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
 

Semiparametric approaches
for inference in joint models
for longitudinal and time-to-event data

 

  Friday, March 14
11:00 AM
Faculty Center Auditorium
1st Floor, off the lobby
Room FC1.2002
Anastasios Tsiatis, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
 

Efficient estimation
of the mean of a time-lagged response
subject to right censoring

 

  Tuesday, March 18
11:00 AM
Abdus S. Wahed
Doctoral Student
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina
 

Efficient estimation
of the survival distribution
and related quantities for treatment policies
in two-stage randomization designs
in clinical trials

 

 Monday, March 24
10:30 AM
Ying-Sheng Hu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
College of Optometry
University of Houston
Houston, Texas
 

Learning patterns
of amblyopic patients
and change analysis

 

  Wednesday, March 26
4:00 PM
Scott B. Cantor, Ph.D.
Associate Decision Scientist
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Section of Health Services Research
The University of Texas
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
 

Incorporating
health services research
in clinical trials

 

 Thursday, March 27
1:00 PM
Yuan Ji
Doctoral Student
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin
 

Empirical Bayes modeling
for microarray gene expression data
with applications in identifying
differentially expressed genes and
in classification for treatments

 

 Thursday, March 27
3:30 PM
Faculty Center Auditorium, FC1.2002
1st floor, off the lobby

(at Rice University on March 28)

Terry Speed, Ph.D.
Department of Statistics
Program in Biostatistics
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California
 

Low level analysis
of microarray expression data

 

  Wednesday, April 9
4:00 PM
Joel Dubin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Department of Epidemiology
and Public Health
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut
 

Correlation for multivariate
and longitudinal data

 

 Thursday, April 17
1:00 PM
Stan Pounds, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics
Center for Bioinformatics
St. Jude's Childrens Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee
 

Approximating and partitioning the distribution of p-values arising from microarray studies

 

  Tuesday, April 22
4:00 PM
James G. Booth, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
 

Sorting periodically-expressed genes using microarray data: statistical analysis of the yeast cell-cycle data

 

 Wednesday, April 23
4:00 PM
Greg Grant
Researcher
Center for Bioinformatics
Dept of Computer & Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 

Methods in differential expression analysis of microarray data

 

 Thursday, April 24
1:00 PM
Elisabetta Manduchi, Ph.D.
Research Project Manager
Computational Biology
and Informatics Laboratory
Center for Bioinformatics
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 

Challenges in the analysis of microarray data and an approach to collection, organization,
and exchange of all relevant information

 

 Wednesday, April 30
4:00 PM
Bill Gillespie
 

High value applications of modeling and simulation in early clinical drug development

 

 

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