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Fall Conference of Statistics in Biology
The Department of Statistics at Iowa State University is pleased to host an ASA and IMS co-sponsored conference on statistics in biology. The conference will feature a series of talks and posters on statistical theory, methods, and applications motivated by problems from the biological sciences.
| What | Conference |
|---|---|
| When |
13 Oct 2008 (08:00 AM)
to 15 Oct 2008 (05:00 PM) |
| Where | IA State |
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Tentative Schedule:
Monday, October 13
7:45-8:25 Light Breakfast
Contributed Talks (parallel sessions if necessary)
8:25-8:30 Opening Remarks
8:30-8:55 Contributed Talk 1, 2
9:00-9:25 Contributed Talk 3, 4
9:30-9:55 Contributed Talk 5, 6
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-10:55 Contributed Talk 7, 8
11:00-11:25 Contributed Talk 9, 10
11:30-11:55 Contributed Talk 11, 12
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-1:55 Contributed Talk 13, 14
2:00-2:25 Contributed Talk 15, 16
2:30-2:55 Contributed Talk 17, 18
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-3:55 Contributed Talk 19, 20
4:00-4:25 Contributed Talk 21, 22
4:30-4:55 Contributed Talk 23, 24
5:00-5:15 Poster Advertisements
5:45-7:30 Dinner at local restaurants (sign up to ride with local hosts)
7:30-9:30 Mixer / Poster Session (posters, desserts, cash bar)
Tuesday, October 14
7:45-8:25 Light Breakfast
8:25-8:30 Opening Remarks
8:30-9:15 Kathryn Roeder
Genetic matching by ancestry in genome wide association studies
9:20-10:05 Xihong Lin
Genomic-feature based analysis of genome-wide association studies
10:10-10:40 Break
10:40-11:25 Terry Speed
Some statistical issues with next-generation sequencing data
11:30-12:15 Charles McCulloch
Prediction of random effects and effects of misspecifying their distribution
12:20-1:45 Lunch
1:50-2:35 Jim Booth
A mixture of mixed-effects models for microarray analysis
2:40-3:25 Michael Newton
Gamma rankings help to organize differentially expressed genes in multi-group expression analysis
3:25-3:55 Break
4:00-5:00 Laurence H. Baker Lecture I by Brad Efron
Large-scale prediction problems
5:15-6:00 Cash bar and appetizers
6:00-7:30 Banquet at Gateway
Wednesday, October 15
7:45-8:25 Light Breakfast
8:25-8:30 Opening Remarks
8:30-9:15 Yuehua Cui
Functional mapping genomic imprinting underlying developmental characteristics
9:20-10:05 Patrick Breheny
Bi-level feature selection with applications to genetic association studies
10:10-10:30 Break
10:30-10:50 Shuttles to Campus
11:00-11:50 Laurence H. Baker Lecture II by Brad Efron in Carver 1 (ground floor lecture hall)
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