Invited Speakers

Anthony Almudevar
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York
anthony_almudevar@urmc.rochester.edu
       "Applications of Sequential Methods in Multiple Hypothesis Testing"

Bernard Asselain
Department of Biostatistics
Institut Curie
Paris, France
bernard.asselain@curie.net
       "A Latent Time Distribution Model for the Analysis of Tumor Recurrence Data: An Application to the Role of Age in Breast Cancer Recurrence"      

Linlin Chen
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York
linlin_chen@urmc.rochester.edu
       "Multilayer Correlation Structure of Microarray Gene Expression Data"

Lutz Edler
German Cancer Research Center
Department of Biostatistics C060
Heidelberg, Germany
edler@dkfz-keidelberg.de
      "Practical Biostatistical Issues in the Application of Adaptive Designs in the Search for Better Treatment"

Alexander Gordon
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Charlotte, North Carolina
aygordon@uncc.edu
       "Monotone Multiple Testing Procedures"

Yuriy Gusev
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department of Surgery, Bioinformatics
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
yuriy-gusev@ouhsc.edu
       "Computational Analysis of Cellular Functions and Pathways Collectively Targeted by Co-Expressed MicroRNAs in Human Cancer"

Leonid Hanin
Idaho State University
Department of Mathematics
Pocatello, Idaho
hanin@isu.edu
      "Periodic Patterns of Chromosomal Gene Expression Revealed by Spectral Analysis"

Ollivier Hyrien
University of Rochester Medical Center
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Rochester, New York
ollivier_hyrien@urmc.rochester.edu
      "Composite Likelihood Estimation for Age-Dependent Branching Processes Using CFSE-Labeling Data"

Peter Jagers             
Chalmers University of Technology
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Goteborg, Sweden
jagers@chalmers.se
      "Extinction: Its Frequency, and the Time and Path to It"

Nicholas Jewell
University of California-Berkeley
Department of Biostatistics
Berkeley, California
jewell@uclink.berkeley.edu
       "Inference in High Dimensional Environmental Epidemiology Studies"

Hartmut Land
University of Rochester
Department of Biomedical Genetics
Rochester, New York
land@urmc.rochester.edu
       “Deconstructing Cancer Cells:  Andrei Yakovlev’s Impact on Recent Advances in Cancer Research”

Marianthi Markatou
Columbia University
Department of Biostatistics
New York, New York
markat@stat.columbia.edu
      "Understanding the Effects of Normalization Methods on the Dependence Structure of Microarray Gene Expression Data"

Suresh Moolgavkar
University of Washington at Seattle
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
smoolgav@fhcrc.org
      "Multistage Carcinogenesis and Epidemiologic Studies of Cancer"

Mark Noble
University of Rochester Medical Center
Department of Biomedical Genetics
Rochester, New York
mark_noble@urmc.rochester.edu
      " Creating Qualitative Changes in Precursor Cell Biology by Quantitative Analysis"

Xing Qiu
University of Rochester Medical Center
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
Rochester, New York
xing_qiu@urmc.rochester.edu
      "Detecting Correlation Changes: A New Perspective on Gene Selection"

John Storey
Princeton University
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton, New Jersey
jstorey@princeton.edu

Aniko Szabo
Medical College of Wisconsin
Division of Biostatistics
Department of Population Health
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
aszabo@mcw.edu
      "Modeling Prostate Cancer Incidence"

Alexander Tsodikov
University of Michigan
Department of Biostatistics
Ann Arbor, Michigan
tsodikov@umich.edu
      "Likelihood Transformations and Artificial Mixtures"

Elart von Collani
University of Würzburg
Lehrstuhl fur Okonometrie
Sanderring
Würzburg, Germany
collani@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de
      "A New Approach for Quantifying Uncertainty in Epidemiology"

Nikolay M. Yanev
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Department of Probability and Statistics
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics
Sofia, Bulgaria
nickolay_yanev@urmc.rochester.edu
      "Branching Processes as Models in Cell Proliferation"

Marvin Zelen
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Biostatistics
Boston, Massachusetts
zelen@hsph.harvard.edu
      "Forward and Backward Recurrence Times and Length Biased Sampling:  Age Specific Models "