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Honoring and Fostering our Collective Humanity: A Restorative Circle Series from the Harvard Ombuds Office
Harvard Longwood Campus Boston, MA, United StatesWe’re still at it. Even in this most challenging of times, we’re still striving to connect, hold space for trauma and healing, and forge paths forward together. Join your Longwood community members as we gather to strengthen our campus connections. Building on restorative practices, we’ll explore themes of community, self-care, and identities. Space is limited...
Thesis Defense – Anthony Ma
FXB – Room G03 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United StatesThesis Defense: Anthony Ma Time: Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94566387781 Anthony will present the thesis titled “Multimodal Representation Learning in Spatial Transcriptomics for Computational Pathology”. The thesis committee is chaired by Andrew Song and includes Faisal Mahmood and John Quackenbush.
Don’t Leave Yet! Research Data Offboarding Done Right
When employees leave, they take their skills and institutional knowledge with them. It is important to record essential informative information related to projects and datasets to ensure the success of future users. This session will review the important steps for offboarding employees/trainees from a lab or project. We will provide an overview of the various...
Dissertation Defense – Hui Li
FXB – Room G12 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United StatesHui will present the dissertation entitled “Powerful Statistical Methods for Precise Heritability Estimation and Partitioning using Summary Statistics”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Xihong Lin, and includes Dr. Rahul Mazumder, Dr. Alkes Price, and Dr. Samuel Kou.
Community-Driven Research on Environmental Injustice, Energy and Health in Southern California – Jill Johnston, PhD
Building 1Join us for our 2023-2024 colloquium series on Environmental Health in Action. Jill Johnston, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Spatial Sciences, will deliver a lecture entitled Community-Driven Research on Environmental Injustice, Energy and Health in Southern California. Dr. Jill Johnston is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in the Division...
Community-Driven Research on Environmental Injustice, Energy and Health in Southern California
Building 1 665 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, United StatesJoin us for our 2023-2024 colloquium series on Environmental Health in Action. Jill Johnston, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Spatial Sciences, will deliver a lecture entitled Community-Driven Research on Environmental Injustice, Energy, and Health in Southern California. Dr. Jill Johnston is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in the Division...
Thesis Defense – Jiaxin Shen
Building 2, Room 426Jiaxin will present the thesis entitled “Unsupervised Model Aggregation Methods to Integrate Pre-trained Polygenic Risk Prediction Models". The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Rui Duan, and includes Dr. Georg Hahn and Dr. Erin Lake.
Thesis Defense – Minye Zhou
FXB – Room G03 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United StatesThesis Defense: Minye Zhou Time: Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92207007205 Minye will present the thesis titled “Integrating RNA-seq and ATAC-seq Data to Elucidate Gene Regulatory Networks”. The thesis committee is chaired by Felix Dietlein and includes Lori Chibnik and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense – Yifan Duan
FXB – Room G03 651 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, United StatesThesis Defense: Yifan Duan Time: Wednesday May 8, 2024 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96809748553 Yifan will present the thesis titled “Benchmarking compositional data analysis methods for single-cell RNA-seq data”. The thesis committee is chaired by Adam Haber and includes Sophia Carryl, Wenjiang Deng, and John Quackenbush.
Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar
Building 2, Room 426Daniel Schwartz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Dynamic Latent Factor Models To Infer Dietary Patterns From Nutrition Survey Data Abstract: A growing body of research has shown that poor diet is a leading risk factor for death, especially in connection with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease. However, these studies provide limited...