Hui 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.
Join 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...
Join 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...
Jiaxin 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 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 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.
Daniel 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...
Join the Thich Nhat Hanh Center for Mindfulness in Public Health for a refreshing mindfulness practice on Thursday afternoon, May 9th from 1 pm to 1:50 pm in Kresge, Room 110. The drop-in mindfulness sessions include sitting and walking meditations, learning about mindfulness, and practicing mindfulness to enhance our energy of ease and rest. The...
This hybrid in-person/virtual seminar will be presented by Carl Bergstrom, Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Washington. The in-person portion will be held in Kresge G3 and does not require registration. Register for the seminar here. Dr. Bergstrom is a Professor of Biology at the University of Washington. The unifying theme of his...
Talk title: The impediments to high-risk, high-return research Presenter: Carl Bergstrom, Professor at the Department of Biology, University of Washington Dr. Bergstrom is a Professor of Biology at the University of Washington. The unifying theme of his work is the concept of information; how communication evolves and how the process of evolution encodes information in...
Thesis Defense: Mian Zhao Time: Thursday May 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94566387781 Mian will present the thesis titled “Phenotypic and genome evolution after radiation induced DNA damage”. The thesis committee is chaired by Cheng-Zhong Zhang and includes Spektor Alexander and John Quackenbush.
Thesis Defense: Michelle Dai Time: Thursday May 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: Kresge 201 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/92102482641 Michelle will present the thesis titled “Knowledge Graph-Based Approach for Schizophrenia Drug Repurposing”. The thesis committee is chaired by Jukka-Pekka Onnela and includes Marinka Zitnik and John Quackenbush.
