BST 290 Biostatistics Seminars are held in Winter and Spring quarters.
Spring 2026
Instructor: Lihong Qi
Instructor email: [email protected]
Time: Tuesdays 12:10-1:00pm Pacific Time (US) from April 2 to June 6, 2024
Location: Mathematical Sciences Building, Room 1147 (unless Zoom is indicated)
Description: BST 290 is a seminar series intended to introduce biostatistics graduate students to a diversity of current research topics and applications of biostatistics. During this session, students will hear presentations on current topics and methodological research in biostatistics, and thus gain practical experience and confidence with the communication formats commonly encountered by biostatisticians practicing in contemporary, research-intensive, multi-disciplinary settings.
Student responsibilities: To receive credit, students must attend and actively participate in all sessions. Attendance will be assessed during each session.
Schedule:
All seminars are on Tuesday, 12:10 - 1PM in the Math Sciences Building, Room 1147 unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Speaker |
|---|---|
| March 31 | Sisi Ma |
| April 7 | Dr. Jiang Li, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute |
| April 14 | Yu Wang, Graduate Group in Epidemiology, UC Davis |
| May 5 | Dr. Laurel Beckett, Department of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis |
| May 12 | Dr. Grace Hyun Kim, Department of Radiology and Biostatistics, UCLA |
| May 19 | Dr. William D. Dupont, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine |
| May 26 | Dr. Pei Zhang, National Cancer Institute |
| June 2 | Dr. Hongyu Zhao, Yale University |