The Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture and Natural Resources is being held from April 26-28 at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL. Abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations are due by Friday, …
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Jacob Maronge wins JSM Travel Award
Congratulations to Jake Maronge for winning the JSM Travel Award from the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association. Jack won this award for a paper titled “Generalized case-control sampling under generalized linear models,” one …
BMI Assistant Professor Velten and Professor Yu named Vilas Associates
Two BMI faculty were named Vilas Associates in the most recent Vilas Associates Competition. Andreas Velten and Menggang Yu were selected for this honor by the Divisional Research Committees of the Office of the Vice …
Dr. Sündüz Keleş and her graduate student, Ye Zheng, in Nature
Dr. Sündüz Keleş and her graduate student, Ye Zheng, have developed FreeHi-C (fragment interactions empirical estimation for fast simulation of Hi-C data), a way to generate simulated Hi-C data which is published in Nature – …
Professor Sunduz Keles profiled in Nature Methods
BMI Professor Sunduz Keles was profiled in “The Author File” section of Nature Methods in December 2019. The profile is a nice combination of background on Professor Keles and her current research (with graduate student …
Asst Prof Lu Mao receives 3-year NIH award to develop new statistical methods for use in clinical trials
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Lu Mao on the award of a $1.1M 3-year National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) award titled “Novel Statistical Methods for Complex Time-to-Event Data in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials. In clinical …
Asst Prof Daifeng Wang awarded 5-year NIH grant to study Alzheimer’s Disease
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang, who has been awarded a $1.68M, 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging entitled “Understanding the molecular mechanisms that contribute to neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychiatric …
Congratulations to Chaoqun Mei
Congratulations to Chaoqun Mei who has been accepted as a student scholar for the 2019 Deming Conference!
BMI Affiliate Prof. Guilherme Rosa advances big-data methods for precision livestock farming.
Grow magazine, published by the UW College of Agriculture and Life Sciences featured BMI affiliate professor Guilherme Rosa’s research on using big data methods for precision livestock farming. Professor Rosa developed tools that combine big …
2019 DeMets Lecture Series
Please join the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and colleagues for the 2019 DeMets Lecture Series, featuring J. Richard Landis, PhD, on November 7 and 8. Professor Landis will give two lectures: one technical …