Division of Biostatistics Seminar Series

Friday, 12:30 - 1:30 pm

(unless otherwise noted)

Coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided

GEMS classroom

3^rd Floor in Shriner’s Building

Spring, 2007

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic
2/9/2007 Friday	Cancelled
2/23/2007 Friday	Chengjie Xiong, PhD	Division of Biostatistics, WUSM	Diagnostic Accuracy within and beyond Sensitivity and Specificity
3/1/2007 Thursday 12:30-1:30	Gina D'Angelo	Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh	Missing Data and Dimension Reduction Techniques
3/9/2007 Friday	John P. Rice, Ph.D.	Department of Psychiatry, WUSM	Some statistical issues in Whole Genome Association Studies
3/19/2007 Monday	Wei Zhao Ph.D.	Department of Human Genetics UCLA	A Network-Based Gene Screening Approach For Improving the Validation Success of Microarrays
3/23/2007 Friday	Cancelled
4/13/2007 Friday	William Shannon, PhD	Division of General Medical Sciences, WUSM	Objective Measurement of Fatigue in HIV/AIDS Using Actigraphy and Functional Data Analysis
4/27/2007 11:30-12:30 Friday	Nilanjan Chatterjee, PhD	Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS.	Enhanced Detection of Genes and Environments by Exploiting Interactions
5/11/2007 Friday	Cancelled
5/25/2007 Friday	Cancelled

Fall, 2006

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Topic
September 22, 2006 Friday	Weng Kee Wong Ph.D	Department of Biostatistics, UCLA	Applications of optimal design ideas to biomedical problems
September 29, 2006 Friday	R.W. Doerge, Ph.D	Department of Statistics Purdue University	Functional Genomics of Quantitative Traits: Expression Level Polymorphisms of QTLs Affecting Disease Resistance Pathways in Arabidopsis
October 13, 2006 Friday	Weixiong Zhang, PH.D	Department of Computer Science, WU in St. Louis	Elucidating transcriptional regulation - Genome-wide cis-element identification and large-scale co-expression network construction
October 27, 2006 Friday	Andre' Rogatko, Ph.D.	Winship Cancer Center, Emory University	INDIVIDUALIZED PATIENT DOSING IN CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS
November 1, 2006 Wednesday	Yun Ju Sung, Ph.D.	Division of Biostatistics, WUSM	Accounting for Epistasis in Linkage Analysis of General Pedigrees
November 10, 2006 Friday	Shesh N. Rai, Ph.D.	Department of Biostatistics, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Presence of Informative Observation Process with Application to Pediatric Cancer Study
November 24, 2006 Friday	*** Canceled ***
December 8, 2006 Friday	Dr. Scarlett Bellamy	Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania	Design and Analysis Challenges in Couples-Based Randomized Trials: An application to a couple-based HIV risk reduction intervention
December 22, 2006 Friday	*** Canceled ***

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