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Department Seminars

In this seminar current research is presented by invited speakers of university of Michigan researchers.  All seminars will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, except when noted otherwise. Coffee and cookies will be served at 3:00 p.m. in room M4034, the Biostatistics conference room. For more information email wmashbur@umich.edu.

Date Speaker and Title Location
Thursday, September 15, 2011 Kerby Shedden- University of Michigan M1152 SPHII
Thursday, September 29, 2011 Matthew Stephens - University of Chicago M1152 SPHII
Thursday, October 6, 2011 Richard Hudson - University of Chicago M1152 SPHII
Thursday, October 13. 2011 Marina Vannucci - Rice University M1152 SPHII
Thursday, October 20, 2011 Donna Spiegelmann - Harvard M1152 SPHII
Thursday, October 27, 2011 Tyler VanderWeele - Harvard M1152 SPHII
Thursday, November 3, 2011 Ruth Pfeiffer - NHI/NCI M1152 SPHII
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 12:00 -1:00 Chris Scheller - Biostatistics - U of M M1152 SPHII
Thursday, November 10, 2011 Chris Genovese - Carnegie Mellon University M1152 SPHII
Thursday, November 17, 2011 Brian Langholz - USC M1152 SPHII
Thursday, December 1, 2011 Menggang Yu - Indiana M1152 SPHII
Friday, December 2, 2011 - 8:30 am Francesca Dominici - Harvard 1680 SPH I
Thursday, December 8, 2011 Daniel Almirall - University of Michigan M1152 SPHII
Thursday, February 16, 2012 Kelley Kidwell - University of Pittsburgh M1112 SPHII
Thursday, February 23, 2012 Jim Zidek - University of British Columbia M1112 SPHII
Thursday, March 8, 2012 Lurdes Inoue - University of Washington M1112 SPHII
Thursday, March 15, 2012 Dylan Small - University of Pennsylvania M1112 SPHII
Thursday, March 22, 2012 Andrew Lawson - Medical University of South Carolina M1112 SPHII
Thursday, March 29, 2012 Li Hsu - Fred Hutschinson Cancer Research Center M1112 SPHII
Thursday, April 12, 2012 Simone Tarare - University of Southern California -CANCELLED M1112 SPHII
Thursday, April 12, 2012 Sehee Kim - Harvard M1152 SPHII
Thursday, May 3, 2012 Jamie Myles, University of Michigan - MICHR M1152 SPHII

Brown Bag Seminars

In this student run seminar, the presenters provide information that will be useful to biostatistics graduate students.  Lunch will be served. An email will be sent to announce the seminar; an RSVP (through email) is required. For information, email wmashbur@umich.edu All Brown Bag Seminars will be held at 12:00 p.m. in M1152 SPHII, except when noted otherwise.

Date Speaker and Title Location
Friday, November 18, 2011 Panel Discussion on Internship Related Topics M1152 SPHII

Cancer Biostatistics Working Group

In this weekly meeting faculty members discuss their ongoing methodological research in a chalk-talk format. For information contact Jeremy Taylor at jmgt@umich.edu.

Statistical Genetics Journal Club

In this biweekly meeting faculty members and graduate students present an article from the recent literature.  All seminars will be held at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Crossroads 2695. For more information contact Laura Scott at ljst@umich.edu .

Date Speaker and Title Location
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Joe Washburn - Overview of SOLiD 3plus and the BioScope analysis tools. Crossroads 2695
Tuesday, September 22, 2009 No meeting No meeting
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 TBD - Zerbino and Birney 92008) Velver: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using Bruijn graphs. Genome Research 18:821-9 Crossroads 2695
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 11:00 AM. Jonathan Cohen. University of Texas Southwestern M1152 SPHII

Statistical Genetics Seminar

In this monthly series, internal and external speakers present current research. For information contact Hyun Min Kang at hmkang@umich.edu

Date Speaker and Title Location
Thursday, December 9, 2010 Montgomery Slatkin - University of California - Dpt. of Integrative Biology.
Methods for inferring admixture from genomic sequence data and applications to ancient hominims
M1152 SPHII

Cancer Biostatistics Seminar

This one credit hour course is offered every fall semester.  Faculty members, students and guests present research related to cancer biostatistics.  Biostatistics 803, Fridays at 9 a.m.   For information contact Jeremy Taylor at jmgt@umich.edu .