Anuraag Gopaluni, PhD Candidate, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Methods for accurate real-time estimates of death in the context of reporting delays Abstract: State-level mortality data in the United States is subject to reporting delays of up to 18 weeks, causing gaps between reported and true mortality in the short-term. Existing methods for correcting gaps...
HIV Training Grant Lightning Talks Abstract: Join us in learning about the important work being conducted by the PhD and Postdoctoral researchers on the HIV Training Grant! Over two sessions, all 10 trainees will present 5-minute lightning talks about their research projects shaping the future of infectious disease and adjacent areas.
Peyton will present the thesis entitled “Development of predictive tools for Alzheimer’s disease using multiomic platforms through application of penalized regression techniques". The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Christoph Lange, and includes Dr. Georg Hahn and Dr. Erin Lake.
Xiuwei Zhang Assistant Professor, School of Computational Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Cell dynamics across various time scales and spatial coordinates In biological processes like development and disease progression, cells differentiate into various cell types. At the time scale of cell divisions, lineage tracing technologies make it possible to reconstruct the cell division...
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...
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.
Intekhab will present the dissertation entitled “Biologically motivated artificial intelligence for explainable gene regulatory dynamics”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. John Quackenbush, and includes Dr. Rebekka Burkholz, Dr. Rong Ma, and Dr. Kimberly Glass.
Eric will present the dissertation entitled “Statistical Methods for the Study of Effect Modification and Spatial Causal Inference: Theory and Applications”. The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. José Zubizarreta, and includes Dr. Rajarshi Mukherjee and Dr. Andrea Rotnitzky.
Amy Zhou, PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Comparison of Outcome-Dependent Sampling for Semi-Competing Risks Abstract: Outcome-dependent sampling is a commonly used design tool to collect otherwise unavailable information on a subset of participants rather than all participants. This is particularly useful in research settings where one or more covariates of interest may not...
Carmen B. Rodriguez, PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A Bayesian Mixture Model Approach to Examining Socioeconomic Disparities in Endometrial Cancer Care in Massachusetts. Abstract: Endometrial cancer (EC) is the most common gynecologic cancer in the United States. On average, African American women have 55% higher 5-year mortality risk...
Seunggeun 'Shawn' Lee Adjunct Professor, Biostatistics University of Michigan Rare variant association analysis Rare variants significantly impact complex diseases. This presentation will first introduce SAIGE-GENE and SAIGE-GENE+, methodologies extending SAIGE to gene/region-based rare variant tests. These methods efficiently utilize mixed effects models to adjust for sample relatedness and saddlepoint approximations to account for case-control imbalance....
Paige Williams Senior Lecturer on Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics The Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) Abstract: The Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) network conducts multiple longitudinal cohort studies investigating the long-term effects of HIV and antiretroviral (ARV) medications in children and young adults who were born with HIV...
