Thesis Defense: Xiaohe Tian Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 3:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97604026268 Xiaohe will present the thesis titled “Deciphering the Effect of chr17q21.31 Haplotype on Transcriptional Regulation Using Large-scale AMP-PD Cohorts”. The thesis committee is chaired by Xianjun Dong and includes Heng Li and John Quackenbush.

Thesis Defense: Ruixin Chen Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93482835782 Ruixin will present the thesis titled “Understanding Tissue Permissivity in Cancer Development”. The thesis committee is chaired by Kevin Haigis and includes Martin Hemberg and John Quackenbush.

Thesis Defense: Yuelai Wang Time: Friday May 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time Location: FXB G10 Zoom: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/97625956716 Yuelai will present the thesis titled “Hidden Markov Modeling of Somatic Mutations in Human Melanoma Cancer”. The thesis committee is chaired by Felix Dietlein and includes Junwei Lu and John Quackenbush.

Emma Crenshaw Doctoral Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics Modeling the 2022 Mpox outbreak with a mechanistic network model Abstract: The 2022 outbreak of MPox affected more than 80,000 individuals worldwide, most of whom were men who have sex with men (MSM) who likely contracted the disease through close contact...