Division of Biostatistics

Biostatistics Seminar Series Spring 2008

Time: Friday, 12:30–1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted)
Place: GEMS classroom on the 3rd floor in the Shriner's Building
January 18
Brian Gage, Division of General Medical Sciences, Washington University in St Louis
Study Design Strategies to Evaluate Pharmacogenetic Testing and www.WarfarinDosing.org

February 1
Marco Ferreira, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri - Columbia
Spatio-temporal Models for Areal Data in the Exponential Family

February 6 (Please note this is Wednesday)
Zhi Wei, Genomics and Computational Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Statistical Methods for Network-Based Analysis of Genomic Data

February 15
Na Li, Department of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota
Analysis of Clustered Binary Outcomes Measured with Uncertainty

February 22
T. Charles Casper, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin
Survival Estimation for a Composite Outcome When Ascertainment of Events Is Delayed

February 29
Anne Kwitek,Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa
Genetics of Complex Disease: Tying Genotype and Phenotype across Species

March 11
Jurgen Symanzik, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University
Statistical Graphics and Visual Data Mining for Biostatistical Research

March 14
No seminar (Spring break)

March 28
Nicholas Schork, Scripps Genomic Medicine, Scripps Health & Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute
Multilocus Analysis in Genetic Studies

April 11
Aldi Kraja, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University in St Louis
A perspective on the Statistical Methods to Identify Loss of Heterozygosity in Matched Samples of Normal and Lung Tumor Tissues and LOH Gene Networks

April 18
Kai Yu, Biometry and Mathematical Statistics Branch, National Institute of Health
Population Substructure and Control Selection in Genome-wide Association Studies

April 25
Eric Schadt, Rosetta Inpharmatics/Merck Research Labs, Seattle
Constructing Tissue-Tissue Networks to Highlight Novel Causal Patterns of Association with Core Disease Processes


For more information, send an email to yunju at wubios dot wustl dot edu (or rosy at wubios dot wustl dot edu)
Last updated: Friday, April 11, 2008