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Seminar Series
The Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics hosts a weekly seminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters of each academic year on Fridays, 11 AM – 12 PM in SPHIS 103 (unless otherwise noted). The seminar schedule below lists speakers for the upcoming semester and has links to abstracts for each seminar. Contact Mike Sekula, PhD for more information. You can also look at the archived schedule to view speakers from past semesters.
"A neural network based early warning system to enhance community resilience against diarrheal disease."
4/21/2023
| Spring 2023 | Director: Mike Sekula, PhD |
| 1/20/2023 (Remote seminar via Zoom - contact Mike Sekula, PhD for meeting information) | |
| Speaker: Jeong Hoon Jang, PhD, Department of Applied Statistics, Yonsei University | |
| Title: "A functional quantile regression model for predicting hypoglycemic events using continuous glucose monitoring data" | |
| 1/27/2023 | |
| Speaker: Doug Lorenz, PhD, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
| Title: "Development and Internal Validation of a Prediction Rule for Radiographic Pneumonia in the Pediatric ED" | |
| 2/3/2023 | |
| Speaker: Raul Cruz-Cano, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Indiana University Bloomington | |
| Title: "A neural network based early warning system to enhance community resilience against diarrheal disease" | |
| 2/24/2023 | |
| Speaker: Triparna Poddar, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, University of Louisville | |
| Title: "Estimation of Average treatment effect for Survival Outcomes with Continuous Treatment In Observational Studies" | |
| 3/3/2023 | |
| Speaker: Michael Sekula, Ph.D., Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
| Title: "Detection of differentially expressed genes in discrete single-cell RNA sequencing data using a hurdle model with correlated random effects" | |
| 3/10/2023 | |
| Speaker: Uthpala Wanigasekera, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
| Title: "Bayesian methods for causal inference and propensity scores" | |
| 3/24/2023 | |
| Speaker: Carly E. Middleton, Ph.D. student, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
| Title: "Assessment of positive selection across SARS-CoV-2 variants via maximum likelihood approaches and a continuous-time approximation to the Wright-Fisher diffusion model" | |
| 3/31/2023 | |
| Speaker: Huirong Hu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville | |
| Title: "Statistical methods for assessing treatment effects on ordinal outcomes using observational data" | |
| 4/7/2023 (VIRTUAL ONLY VIA ZOOM - Contact Sharmin Sumy for Zoom information) | |
| Speaker: Rameela Ramdan, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medical | |
| Title: "Prescription monitoring in the child welfare system and its challenges" | |
| 4/21/2023 | |
| Speaker: Hongbin Zhang, Ph.D., Department of Biostatistics, University of Kentucky | |
| Title: "Statistical methods for complex longitudinal data" | |
