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.

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: 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.

Kevin will present the dissertation entitled "Causal Inference Methods for Evaluation of Large-Scale Environmental Policy Effects under Complex Treatment Interference". The dissertation committee is chaired by Dr. Rachel Nethery, and includes Dr. Francesca Dominici, Dr. Andrew Beam, and Dr. Falco Bargagli Stoffi.

Thesis Defense: Stella Nam Time: Friday May 3, 2024, at 4:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Wanying will present the thesis titled “Understanding the Holistic Constraints of Clustering Analysis for CyTOF Data Through Characterization of the Immunologic Response to a Novel Candidate Influenza Vaccine”. The thesis committee is chaired by Patrick Reeves and includes...

Thesis Defense: Wanying Dou Time: Friday May 3, 2024, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G03 Wanying will present the thesis titled “A Cloud-based Framework for Hyperparameter Optimization of Genomic Pipelines: Tuning the GATK VETS Model for Variant Filtration on Terra”. The thesis committee is chaired by Samuel Lee and includes Rong Ma and...