Upcoming events:
Please stay tuned for any upcoming events for the Biostatistics Division.
Past events:
Topic: Bayesian Variable Selection to Detect Treatment Response Heterogeneity
Guest speaker: Dr. Daniel P. Beavers, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Data Science, Wake Forest University
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2019, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 1080
Topic: Reproducible Data Science with R Packages
Guest speaker: Dr. Gabriel Odom, Ph.D., Th.D., University of Miami
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2019, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: Network Analysis for Metagenomic Data and Beyond
Guest speaker: Dr. Yuguang Ban, Ph.D., University of Miami
Date: Friday, April 26, 2019, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Guest speaker: Dr. Robert Magari, Global Director of Biostatistics, Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: Automated Cleaning and Deployment of Data in R Packages Using TravisCI and drat
Guest speaker: Ben Joseph Barnard, Data Scientist, Wells Fargo & Company
Date: March 26, 2019, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: Spacially Informed Variable Selection Priors and Applications to Large-scale Data
Guest speaker: Dr. Marina Vannucci, Noah Harding Professor and Chair of Statistics, Rice University
Date: Monday, March 18, 2019, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: Structural and Practical Identifiability Analysis of Zika Epidemiological Models
Guest speaker: Necibe Tuncer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
Date: Monday, January 28, 2019, 11:45 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: The Days in the Life of a Collaborative Biostatistician
Guest speaker: Emir Veledar, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Florida International University
Date: January 24, 2019, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: Challenges in modeling cognition and Dementia
Guest speaker: Terry M. Therneau, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Student Mentoring
Hadley Wickman
Date: November 12, 2018
Topic: Analysis of Longitudinal Data without Pre-Specifying Correlation Structure
Guest speaker: Xin Yan, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics, University of Central Florida
Thursday, October 25, 2018, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Micro/Nanoscale Platforms for Disease Management
Guest speaker: Waseem Asghar, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Florida Atlantic University
Date: Monday, October 15, 2018
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Data Science in R Software Carpentry Session
Gabriel Odom, Ph.D., Th.D. and Kalan Dawson, B.S.
Date: October 11-12, 2018
Link: https://ccs.miami.edu/software-carpentry-medical-campus/
Topic: Model Building Strategies and Methods: Purposeful Selection of Covariates in Logistic Regression Revisited
Guest speaker: Zoran Bursac, Ph.D., MPH, Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics, Robert Stempel College of Public Health, Florida International University
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Bayesian approaches for dose-response analysis for epidemiological studies and information extraction in meta-analysis and Interval Estimation for measure for reproducibility
Guest speaker: Deukwoo Kwon, Ph.D., Scientist, Department of Public Health Sciences, Division of Biostatistics
Friday, August 24th, 2018
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
A video of this event can be found here.
Topic: Constructing Tumor-Specific Gene Regulatory Networks Based on Samples With Tumor Purity Heterogeneity
Guest speaker: Pei Wang, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 12 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 989
Topic: Metric-Based Function Registration and Its Applications in Biostatistics
Guest speaker: Wei Wu, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016
Location: Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 N.W. 14th St., Room 692
