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Department of Biostatistics

The Department of Biostatistics tackles pressing public health challenges by conducting cutting-edge research and translation and by offering top-quality education and training.

Phone 617-432-1056
Location

655 Huntington Avenue Building 2, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02115

Colloquium Seminar Series

The HSPH Biostatistics & DFCI Data Science Colloquium Seminar Series, co-sponsored by our sister department at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, is our flagship event that brings together faculty, students, postdocs, and researchers across both departments nearly every week. This seminar series brings in top academics working in the field to present important research and exchange new ideas.

All seminars are held at 4pm on Thursday afternoons.Colloquium Seminar Series


Upcoming Colloquium


April 10th, 2025
Rebecca Hubbard, Brown University
Location: FXB-G13
Informed Presence Bias in EHR Analysis: Contextual Thinking for Better Inference


2025 Colloquium Schedule

  • April 17, 2025
    • Ted Westling, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • Location: FXB-G13
  • April 23, 2025
    • Snigdha Panigrahi, University of Michigan
    • Location: FXB-G11

Archives

Thomas Lumley
February 6th | FXB-G13
Choosing good subsamples for regression modeling: nearly true models?

Kasper Hansen
John Hopkins University
March 6 | FXB-G13
Universal Prediction of Cell-Cycle Position Using Transfer Learning

Jeff Goldsmith
Columbia University
March 13 | FXB-G13
How (and Why) to Predict Menstrual Cycle Day Using a Spot Urine Sample

Nancy Zhang
University of Pennsylvania
March 27th | FXB- G13
Data Integration in Spatial and Single Cell Omics:  What is Erased, and Can you Recover it?

Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
April 3rd | FXB-G13
Fréchet Regression of Random Objects on Vector Covariates and
Its applications for Single Cell RNA-seq Data Analysis