Biostatistics

Seminars - Fall 2024/Winter 2025

Some of the purposes of these sessions are: to promote biostatistics and biostatistical methodology; serve as a learning opportunity for both students and faculty; foster communication, collaboration, professionalism, career development. The format will be varied: seminar presentations, journal club, discussions of work in progress, interact with guest speakers, etc.

Who is invited: biostatisticians and biostatisticians in training; all other hyphenated-, unhyphenated- and soon-to-be-statisticians with interests in applied statistics.

PLEASE NOTE: The Fall 2024/Winter 2025 Seminar Series will be held in hybrid format (in-person/Zoom) on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 4:30 PM, at the SPGH, 2001 McGill College, Room 1140. Please refer to announcement titles below for details.

 

Date Speaker Title Recording

FALL 2024

   
Sept 4, 2024 Lu Xia (Michigan State U) Estimating Equation-Based Approaches for Complex Longitudinal Data: High-Dimensional Inference and Transfer Learning N/A
Sept 11, 2024 Huimin Cheng (Boston U) Graphon Cross-Validation with Application to Drug Repurposing Recording
Sept 18, 2024
In-Person 
Audrey Beliveau (U of Waterloo) A Penalization Method for Improving the Parsimony of Network Meta-Analysis Models Recording
Sept 23, 2024
In-Person (Monday)
Zhonghua Liu (Columbia U) Integrating a novel robust Mendelian randomization method for proteomics data analysis and AlphaFold3 for predicting 3D structural alterations Recording
Oct 2, 2024
In-Person
Rebecca Hubbard (Brown U) Context is king: Addressing informed presence bias in EHR-based research Recording
Oct 9, 2024
In-Person
Eric Laber (Duke U) Bayesian Basket of Bandits Recording
Oct 16, 2024  NO SEMINAR - Thanksgiving Holiday & Reading Week - Oct 14-18, 2024  
Oct 23, 2024
In-Person
Alex Stringer (U of Waterloo) Two New Methods for Nonlinear Regression in Epidemiology and Environmental Toxicology N/A
Oct 30, 2024 Guanghao Qi (U of Washington) Understanding the genetics of complex traits through statistical integration of genetic and genomic data Recording
Nov 6, 2024 Shu Yang (NCSU) Enhancing Statistical Validity and Power in Hybrid Controlled Trials: A Randomization Inference Approach with Conformal Selective Borrowing Recording
Nov 13, 2024 Souvik Seal (MUSC) Studying molecular spatial co-expression in Spatial Omics datasets Recording
Nov 20, 2024 Jack Bowden (U of Exeter) Instrumental Variable methods to target Hypothetical Estimands with longitudinal repeated measures data: Application to the STEP 1 trial Recording
Nov 27, 2024
In-Person
James Hanley (McGill) The first ‘nested case-control’ study and the first conditional logistic regression Recording

WINTER 2025

   
Jan 8, 2025 Hengrui Cai (UCI) Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning: A Causal Lens on Learning Non-Spuriousness N/A
Jan 15, 2025
In-Person
Michal Abrahamowicz (McGill) Data-driven simulations: a new Quantitative Bias Analysis tool for real-world applications of survival analyses Recording

Jan 24, 2025
Virtual (Friday)
Joint EBOH/CSMQ

Marie Davidian (NCSU) A Generalized Logrank-type Test for Comparison of Treatment Regimes in Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trials Recording
Jan 29, 2025 Prasad Patil (Boston U) Cross-site blending for generalizable prediction of UFP concentrations  
Feb 5, 2025 Zhana Duren (IUSM) Computational Methods for Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks from spatial and single cell multi-omits  
Feb 12, 2025 Ashkan Ertefaie (UPenn) Constructing optimal treatment length strategies to maximize quality-adjusted lifetimes  
Feb 19, 2025
In-Person
Luke Hagar/Chi-Kuang Yeh (McGill) Sample Size Determination in Bayesian Clinical Trials with Clustered Data & 
Positive and Unlabeled Data: Model, Estimation, Inference, and Classification
N/A
Feb 26, 2025 Justin Slater (U of Guelph) A statistical framework for reconstructing epidemic curves  
Mar 5, 2025 NO SEMINAR - Spring Break March 3-7, 2025  
Mar 12, 2025
In-Person
Himchan Jeong (SFU) Tweedie Multivariate Semi-Parametric Credibility with the Exchangeable Correlation  
Mar 19, 2025
In-Person
Iain Pardoe (TRU)
Andrea Benedetti/Qihuang Zhang (McGill)
 
Mar 26, 2025 Yusha Liu (UNC) Dissecting Tumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity from Single-cell RNA-Seq Data by Generalized Binary Covariance Decomposition  
Apr 2, 2025 David Zhang (UNC) Inferring Super-Resolution Tissue Architecture by Integrating Spatial Transcriptomics with Histology  

 

 

 

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