August 22, 2008
Sanger Hall 3-016
9:00 a.m.

RESEARCH DAY - Student presentations

August 29, 2008
Theater Row 1-011
9:00 a.m.

RESEARCH DAY - Student presentations

Friday, September 19, 2008
12:00 PM
Theater Row Room 3-041

FALL SEMINAR SERIES: Yongyun Shin, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Click for Abstract

Friday, September 26, 2008
12:00 PM
Theater Row Room 3-041

FALL SEMINAR SERIES: Paul Andrews and Mike Neale,
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics
Title: Lifting the veil: A goodness-of-fit method for estimating underreporting with application to simulated and real data Click for Abstract

October 3, 2008

2008 National State of the Science Congress Symposia
Drs. R.K. Elswick, Al M. Best, Cristine M. Schubert and Jessica M. Ketchum from the Department of Biostatistics will be participating in a Symposia at the 2008 National State of the Science Congress sponsored by The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS).  They will be joined by colleagues from Nursing (Drs. Nancy McCain, Rita Pickler, Cindy Munro, Mary Jo Grap and Debra Lyon), the School of Engineering (Dr. Paul Wetzel) and School of Medicine (Dr. Curtis Sessler) for the symposia entitled “Evolving Analysis of Patterns of Complex Biobehavioral Data”.  The symposia, composed of thematic 5 presentations, will be held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC on October 3, 2008. 

Friday, October 10
12:00 PM
Theater Row Room 3-041

FALL SEMINAR SERIES: Chris Schubert, Ph.D.,
Department of Biostatistics
Virginia Commonwealth University

November 3-7, 2008

BASS
Fifteenth Annual Biopharmaceutical Applied Statistics Symposium in Savannah, GA

Friday, November 7
12:00 PM
Theater Row Room 3-041

FALL SEMINAR SERIES: David Allison, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics & Clinical Nutrition Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Biostatistics' rise as an empirical science: genomic research as
the leavening agent. Abstract

PAST SEMINARS

August 6, 2008

Dr. Shumei Sun has been invited to present Statistical Applications in Elucidating the Epidemic of Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents at the 2008 Joint Statistical Meeting in Denver, Colorado. 

August 7, 2008

Dr. Christine Schubert has been invited to present Analytic Approaches: Epidemiological, Statistical, and Genetic at the 2008 Joint Statistical Meeting in Denver, Colorado.

July 19, 2008

Dr. Mark Reimers presented a tutorial on Making informed choices about microarray data analysis at the International Society for Computation Biology 2008 Conference in Toronto.

June 19, 2008
Theater Row, Room 3041
730 East Broad Street
1:15 p.m.

Xiangrong Kong, M.S., Ph.D. Candidate
Faculty Candidate, Department of Biostatistics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: A Non-parametric Meta-analysis Approach for Combining Independent Microarray Datasets: Application using Two Microarray Datasets Pertaining to Chronic Allograft Nephropathy
Abstract

June 18, 2008
Theater Row, Room 3041
730 East Broad Street
12 noon

Zhiying You, M.D., M.S.
Faculty Candidate for the Joint Position with the Departments of Biostatistics & Social and Behavioral Health Department of Biostatistics
School of Public Health University of Alabama at Birmingham
Title: Power and Sample Size of Cluster Randomized Trials
Abstract

IISA Meeting
May 22-25, 2008

Dr. Nitai D. Mukhopadhyay of Virginia Commonwealth University gave an invited presentation at the International Indian Statistical Association Conference: Frontiers of Probability and Statistical Science
"Semi Parametric Modeling and Inference of Gene Dependence Using Copulas".
Co-Author: Sarat C. Dass.
University of Connecticut, Storrs, May 22-25, 2008.

May 2, 2008

Faculty Candidate Ji-Ping Wang, Ph.D.
Title: Challenges in statistical modeling of chromatin sequences for eukaryotic species
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics
Northwestern University Evanston, IL
Abstract

April 2, 2008

Kellie J. Archer, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health Microarray Special Interest Group,
Bethesda, MD
"An exploratory approach for assessing aberrant methylation using Affymetrix GeneChip data."

March 25, 2008

Kellie J. Archer, Ph.D.
George Mason University Bioinformatics Colloquium,
Manassas, VA, :
"A combined statistical and bioinformatic approach for identifying hypermethylated genes in human hepatocellular carcinoma."

Annual Meetings

2008 Society of Toxicology (SOT) Annual Meeting
Chris Gennings, Ph.D., Professor
Maria A. Capparuccini, graduate student; presented a poster
Rhonda D. Ellis, graduate student; presented a poster
Scott L. Marshall, graduate student; presented a poster
Epiphanie Nyirabahizi, graduate student; presented a poster
Abigail F. Robinson, graduate student; presented a poster