Chiara Sabatti, Faculty Director of our longstanding Workshop in Biostatistics Series, attends the 2018 Symposium.
Workshops in Biostatistics (BIODS/STATS 260)
Open to enrolled students and all members of the Stanford community.
Receiving Credit for Attending a Workshop Seminar
Students who wish to receive two credits must write an essay summarizing one of the seminars and discussing it critically in the context of the background readings.
Suggestions and self-nominations for seminar speakers and topics are welcome.
The Workshop is held from 2:30-3:50pm.
Winter 2021 workshops will be held remotely via Zoom. Contact Katie Kanagawa (kkanagaw@stanford.edu) for Zoom dial-in details.
Winter 2021 Calendar
| DATE | INVESTIGATOR | PRESENTATION TITLE |
| 1/14 | Kristin Swanson, Professor of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic |
Sex, Drugs and Radiomics of Brain Cancer |
| 1/21 | Ryan Tibshirani, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University |
An Ecosystem for Tracking and Forecasting the Pandemic |
| 1/28 | Dr. Judy W Gichoya, Assistant Professor of Interventional Radiology And Informatics, Emory University |
Operationalizing Fairness in Medical Algorithms: A grand challenge |
2/4 Biomedical Data Science Seminar |
Edward H. (Ted) Shortliffe MD, PhD, Chair Emeritus and Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University; President and CEO Emeritus, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA); Senior Executive Consultant, IBM Watson Health; Former Professor of Medicine and Computer Science, Stanford University (1979-2000); and Founding Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program @ Stanford |
Biomedical AI: Its Roots, Evolution, and Early Days at Stanford |
| 2/11 | Benjamin Langmead, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University |
Advances in pan-genomics for addressing reference bias Abstract and Suggested Readings (PDF) Reading 1 (PDF) |
| 2/18 | Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
Learning from COVID-19 Data on Transmission, Health Outcomes, Interventions and Vaccination Abstract and Suggested Readings (PDF)
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| 2/25 | Richard Bonneau, Professor of Biology and Computer Science, and Director, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, New York University |
Inference of biological networks with biophysically motivated methods |
| 3/4 | Peter Kharchenko, Gilbert S. Omenn Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard University | Comparative analysis of disease-oriented single-cell transcriptional collections |
| 3/11 | Stephanie Hicks, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Scalable statistical methods and software for single-cell data science |
3/18 Biomedical Data Science Seminar |
Kathryn Roeder, UPMC Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences in the Departments of Statistics and Data Science and Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University | Statistical challenges in the analysis of single-cell RNA-seq from brain cells |