PB HLTH 295, Section 001
Statistics and Genomics Seminar

Fall 2017


[Practical Matters] [Schedule] [Abstracts]

Practical Matters

Time
Thursday, 16:10-17:00

Location
1011 Evans Hall (Campus map)

Organizer
Professor Sandrine Dudoit

E-mailing list
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Course registration information
PB HLTH 295, Section 001
Class number: 40801
N.B. ESU grading basis only, maximum of 2 units
E-mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/forum/#!forum/ph295
Department of Statistics Calendar.

Program from previous semesters.

Center for Computational Biology.

Schedule

Thursday, August 24th
Speaker: Professor Iryna Lobach, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Title: Case-Control Studies of Gene-Environment Interaction and Latent Pathology

Thursday, August 31st
Speaker: Professor Stephen Francis, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC San Francisco
Title: Polymorphic Retrovirus Derived Mobile Elements in the Human Genome: Drivers of Complex Disease?

Thursday, September 7th
Speaker: Dr. Josie Hayes, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California SF
Title: Characterizing Stromal Cells in Glioma and their Impact on Survival

Thursday, September 14th
Speaker: Dr. Nelle Varoquaux, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley, and Berkeley Institute for Data Science
Title: Studying the 3D Architecture of the Genome: The Case Study of P. falciparum

Thursday, September 21st
Speaker: Professor Fernando Perez, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Project Jupyter as a Toolkit for Research and Education

Thursday, September 28th
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Daley, Departments of Statistics and Bioengineering, Stanford University
Title: Unsupervised Clustering and Epigenetic Classification of Single Cells

Thursday, October 5th
Speaker: Dr. Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Title: Software for Distributed Computation on Medical Databases

Thursday, October 12th
Speaker: Professor Lexin Li, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
Title: Tensor Response Regression and Neuroimaging Analysis

Thursday, October 19th
Speaker: Snigdha Panigrahi, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
Title: Selection-Adjusted Estimation of Effect Sizes: An Application to eQTLs

Thursday, October 26th
Speaker: Luke Zappia, Bioinformatics, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Title: Single-Cells, Simulation and Kidneys in a Dish

Thursday, November 2nd
Speaker: Dr. Alice Schoenauer Sebag, University of California SF
Title: Single Cell Dynamics in High-Throughput Time-Lapse Screening Data: Developing Generic Methods for Data Re-use and Comparative Analyses

Thursday, November 9th
Cancelled

Thursday, November 16th
Speaker: Dr. Russell Fletcher, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Title: Deconstructing Stem Cell Hierarchies and Discriminating Transient Cell States During Homeostatic Tissue Maintenance and Injury-Induced Regeneration

Thursday, November 23rd
Thanksgiving Holiday

Thursday, November 30th
Cancelled

Thursday, December 7th
Speaker: Michael Cole, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
Title: Data-driven Selection of Normalization Methods for Single-Cell RNA-Seq