Frank Harrell is teaching his 3-session short course on regression modeling strategies using R here at Vanderbilt next month. Frank is a professor and chair of the Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department, and the author of several massively popular R libraries, including Design, rms, and the indispensable Hmisc.
We're restarting the PCG Journal Club again Monday February 8 at 4pm in the CHGR conference room. Most of you who usually attend are familiar with the format, but if not, bring any papers you've read recently and give a brief (i.e. 2 minute) overview of the paper and why you thought it was interesting. No slides allowed.
If you were here for any of the talks Rick Myers has given here at Vanderbilt over the last few years you'll remember all the interesting biomedical research going on at his company, HudsonAlpha. Their spring symposium is March 30, 8am-6pm, at the HudsonAlpha institute in Huntsville, AL. It's FREE, and poster sessions are open to all students and postdocs.
Soumya Raychaudhuri is the lead author on the GRAIL paper in Nature Genetics. GRAIL (Gene Relationships Across Implicated Loci) is software available from the Broad Institute and looks like an interesting way to prioritize SNPs for followup. I'll cover it here in the future, but in the meantime, check out this seminar this Wednesday.
Christen J. Willer, (of the Willer et al Nature Genetics lipid genetics paper), postdoc at University of Michigan and departmental Faculty Candidate, will be giving a talk tomorrow (Wednesday Jan 20) at noon in 208 Light Hall. I'll be going to this one. Topic:
This looks good. 208 Light Hall Wednesday 1/13/2010, Noon Charles Rotimi Health Disparities in the Genomic Era: What are we Learning? Charles Rotimi, PhD, a genetic epidemiologist and a biochemist, is a senior investigator in the Inherited Disease Branch of the NHGRI intramural program.
The Vanderbilt Genome Technology Core is hosting a seminar/workshop on next-generation sequencing where Vanderbilt investigators will share their experiences with several types of next-gen technologies. You can visit the Genome Technology Core at
Ben's paper was published today in the 2010 proceedings of the Pacific Symposium in Biocomputing. You can download the PDF here.
The 2010 Cancer Biostatistics Workshop seminar series begins next Friday with a workshop by Ayumi Shintani on sample size estimation and power analysis. Here's the entire 2010 workshop schedule. Be sure to check out my previous post on software for power calculations in genetic analysis.
This looks interesting. Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series: A Multivariate Methodology for Analyzing Genome-wide Association Studies, by Janice Brodsky, PhD, UCLA.