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Departmental Colloquia

The department has a colloquium series in which both senior and junior faculty from around the country travel to Rochester to give a seminar and meet with faculty and students. The department also hosts an annual lecture by a distinguished statistician in honor of Dr. Charles L. Odoroff, the founding Director of the Division of Biostatistics (now the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology) at the University of Rochester, and another annual lecture in honor of Dr. Andrei Yakovlev, who as Chair led a substantial expansion of the department, particularly in the areas of bioinformatics and computational biology.

^ Charles L. Odoroff Memorial Lecture
* Andrei Yakovlev Colloquia

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Fall 2024


Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, September 19, 2024*	Veera Baladandayuthapani	University of Michigan
Thursday, September 26, 2024	Daniel Scharfstein	University of Utah

Spring 2024

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, March 21, 2019	Linbo Wang	University of Toronto
Thursday, April 18 , 2019	Paul Albert	National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Thursday, May 2^	Patrick Heagerty	University of Washington

Fall 2023

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, September 7, 2023*	William F. Rosenberger	George Mason University
Thursday, September 21, 2023	Robert T. Krafty	Emory University
Thursday, September 28, 2023	Rebecca Hubbard	University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, October 12, 2023	Joseph Antonelli	University of Florida
Thursday, November 9, 2023	Anne Eaton	University of Minnesota

Spring 2023

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday ,March 30, 2023	Jon A. Steingrimsson	Brown University
Thursday, April 13, 2023	Luo Xiao	North Carolina State University
Thursday, April 27, 2023^	Ed George	The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Fall 2022

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, September 8, 2022	Mireille Schnitzer	University of Montreal
Thursday, September 22, 2022*	Lance Waller	Emory University
Thursday, October 13, 2022	Iván Diaz	NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Spring 2022

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, May 5, 2022	Masoud Asgharian	McGill University
Thursday, May 19, 2022^	Susan Murphy	Harvard University

Spring 2020-Fall 2021

In-person and public seminars limited due to COVID-19 restrictions and faculty search candidate seminars

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, September 23, 2021*, 2019	Joseph W. Hogan	Brown University
Thursday, October 21, 2021	Mithat Gonen	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Fall 2019

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, September 19, 2019*	Emery Brown	MIT / Harvard Medical School
Thursday, October 3, 2019	Lucas Janson	Harvard University
Thursday, October 17, 2019	Li-Xuan Qin	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thursday, October 24, 2019	Jaroslaw Harezlak	Indiana University
Thursday, November 14	Michael Hudgens	University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Spring 2019

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, February 14, 2019	Erin Conlon	University of Massachusetts
Thursday, April 4, 2019	Ingo Ruczinski	Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 11, 2019	Ashley Petersen	University of Minnesota
Thursday, April 25, 2019	Dylan Small	University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 9^, 2019	Sharon-Lise Normand	Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Fall 2018

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Monday, September 17, 2018*	Amy Herring	Duke University
Thursday, October 4, 2018	Marco Carone	University of Washington
Thursday, October 18, 2018	Maryclare Griffin	Cornell University
Thursday, November 1, 2018	Mike Daniels	University of Florida
Thursday, November 15, 2018	Jeff Goldsmith	Columbia University
Thursday, November 29, 2018	Benjamin Risk	Emory University

Spring 2018

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, March 1, 2018	Paul McNicholas	McMaster University
Thursday, March 22, 2018	Anthony Almudevar	University of Rochester
Thursday, April 12, 2018	Linda Valeri	Harvard University/McLean Hospital
Friday, April 20, 2018	Bhramar Mukherjee	University of Michigan
Thursday, May 10^, 2018	Per Kragh Andersen	University of Copenhagen

Fall 2017

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 14, 2017*	Martin Wells	Cornell University
Thursday, Sept 28, 2017	Lynn Lin	The Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, Oct 5, 2017	Christopher Schmid	Brown University
Thursday, Oct 26, 2017	Dean Follmann	National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Thursday, Nov 9, 2017	Xiao Wang	Purdue University
Thursday, Nov 30, 2017	Xing Qiu	University of Rochester

Spring 2017

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Feb 9, 2017	Lindsay Renfro	Mayo Clinic
Thursday, Feb 16, 2017	Julian Wolfson	University of Minnesota
Thursday, Mar 2, 2017	Mireille Schnitzer	Universite de Montreal
Thursday, Mar 23, 2017	Joshua Warren	Yale University
Thursday, Apr 6, 2017	Abdus Wahed	University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, Apr 13, 2017	Jeff Leek	Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, Apr 27^, 2017	Colin B. Begg	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thursday, May 18, 2017	Scott Zeger	Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2016

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 8, 2016*	Richard Cook	University of Waterloo
Thursday, Sept 29, 2016	Jennifer Bobb	Group Health Research Institute
Thursday, Oct 13, 2016	John Muschelli	Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, Oct 27, 2016	Kristin Linn	University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, Nov 3, 2016	Sumanta Basu	Cornell University
Thursday, Nov 17, 2016	Mike Elliott	University of Michigan
Thursday, Dec 1, 2016	Martin Morgan	Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Thursday, Dec 15, 2016	John Rice	University of Rochester

Spring 2016

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Jan 14, 2016	Ollivier Hyrien	University of Rochester
Thursday, Feb 11, 2016	Jason Fine	University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Thursday, Mar 17, 2016	W. Evan Johnson	Boston University
Thursday, Apr 7, 2016	Anand Vidyashankar	George Mason University
Thursday, Apr 21, 2016	Daniel Gaile	State University of New York at Buffalo
Thursday, May 5^	Roderick Little	University of Michigan

Fall 2015

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 24, 2015*	Heping Zhang	Yale University
Thursday, Oct 1, 2015	Julie McIntyre	University of Alaska Fairbanks
Thursday, Oct 15, 2015	Kimberly Glass	Brigham and Women's Hospital
Thursday, Oct 29, 2015	Steven Piantadosi	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Thursday, Nov 12, 2015	Steven T. Piantadosi	University of Rochester
Thursday, Dec 3, 2015	Michael Rosenblum	Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, Dec 16, 2015	Tongtong Wu	University of Rochester

Spring 2015

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Jan 22, 2015	Sally Thurston	University of Rochester
Thursday, Feb 12, 2015	Betsy Ogburn	Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, Mar 26, 2015	Dan Heitjan	Southern Methodist University
Thursday, April 9, 2015	Cheng Yong Tang	Temple University
Thursday, April 30^, 2015	Marie Davidian	North Carolina State University

Fall 2014

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 18*, 2014	Dan Scharfstein	Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, Oct 2, 2014	Scott Evans	Harvard University
Thursday, Oct 16, 2014	Keith Baggerly	MD Anderson Cancer Center
Thursday, Oct 30, 2014	John Staudenmayer	University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Thursday, Nov 13, 2014	John Fricks	Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, Dec 4, 2014	Hongyu Miao	University of Rochester

Spring 2014

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Jan 23, 2014	Douglas E. Schaubel	University of Michigan
Thursday, Mar 6, 2014	Russell Taki Shinohara	University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, Mar 27, 2014	Jacob Bien	Cornell University
Thursday, Apr 10, 2014	Jim Ramsay	McGill University
Thursday, May 1^, 2014	Thomas A. Louis	Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, May 15, 2014	Brian Caffo	Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2013

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 19*, 2013	David Ruppert	Cornell University
Thursday, Oct 24, 2013	Rick Chappell	University of Wisconsin Medical School
Thursday, Nov 7, 2013	Yuanjia Wang	Columbia University
Thursday, Nov 21	David Matteson	Cornell University

Spring 2013

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Mar 28, 2013	Lei Liu	Northwestern University
Thursday, Apr 18, 2013	Brent Johnson	Emory University
Thursday, April 25^, 2013	Jack Kalbfleisch	University of Michigan
Tuesday, June 4, 2013	Siddhartha R. Dalal	RAND Corporation and Columbia University

Fall 2012

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 6*, 2012	Ying Kuen K. Cheung	Columbia University
Thursday, Oct 25, 2012	Richard Cook	University of Waterloo
Thursday, Nov 29, 2012	Elizabeth Schifano	University of Connecticut
Thursday, Dec 13, 2012	Xuelin Huang	University of Texas

Spring 2012

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Jan 19, 2012	Judith Lok	Harvard School of Public Health
Thursday, Feb 9, 2012	Dawn Woodard	Cornell University
Thursday, Mar 8, 2012	Haibo Zhou	University of North Carolina
Thursday, Apr 19, 2012	Ian McKeague	Columbia University
Thursday, May 3^, 2012	Nancy Geller	NIH/NHLBI

Fall 2011

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 2*, 2011	Xihong Lin	Harvard School of Public Health
Thursday, Oct 13, 2011	Peter X. K. Song	University of Michigan
Thursday, Nov 3, 2011	Alicia Carriquiry	Iowa State University
Thursday, Nov 17, 2011	Annie Qu	University of Illinois

Spring 2011

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Feb 17 , 2011	John Kolassa	Rutgers University
Thursday, Mar 10, 2011	Gong Tang	University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, May 12, 2011	Mary Sammel	University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 19, 2011	Haipeng Shen	University of North Carolina
Thursday, May 26^, 2011	Amita Manatunga	Emory University

Fall 2010

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sep 9*, 2010	Michael Kosorok	University of North Carolina
Thursday, Oct 28, 2010	Ping Ma	University of Illinois
Thursday, Nov 4 , 2010	Jerry Lawless	University of Waterloo
Thursday, Nov 11, 2010	Nick Holford	University of Auckland
Thursday, Dec 2, 2010	Hongyu Zhao	Yale University
Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010	Bradley Carlin	University of Minnesota

Summer 2010

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Friday, Jul 23 , 2010	Yisheng Li	University of Texas

Spring 2010

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Mar 11, 2010	Alexander Tsodikov	University of Michigan
Thursday, Apr 1, 2010	Eric J. Kalendra	North Carolina State University
Friday, Apr 16^ , 2010	Raymond J. Carroll	Texas A&M University
Tuesday, Apr 27, 2010	Zhiguo Li	University of Michigan
Thursday, Apr 29, 2010	Deb Sinha	Florida State University
Thursday, May 6, 2010	Junfeng Liu	University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
Thursday, May 20, 2010	Laurel A. Beckett	University of California at Davis

Fall 2009

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 17*, 2009	Dean Follmann	NIH/NIAID
Thursday, Sept 24, 2009	Ruiguang Song	Centers for Disease Control
Thursday, Oct 8 , 2009	Hui Zou	University of Minnesota
Friday, Oct 23, 2009	Rustom Antia	Emory University
Thursday, Oct 29, 2009	Christopher Coffey	University of Iowa
Thursday, Dec 10, 2009	Minge Xie	Rutgers University

Spring 2009

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Jan 15, 2009	Martin Meier-Schellersheim	National Institutes of Health
Thursday, Mar 26, 2009	Hongzhe Li	University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, April 2^, 2009	Terry M. Therneau	Mayo Clinic
Thursday, April 23, 2009	Lili Tian	SUNY at Buffalo
Thursday, Apr 30, 2009	Jeremy Taylor	University of Michigan

Fall 2008

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, Sept 18*, 2008	Yi Li	Harvard School of Public Health
Thursday, Sept 25, 2008	Jane-Ling Wang	University of California, Davis
Thursday, Oct 23, 2008	Kung-Sik Chan	The University of Iowa
Thursday, Nov 6, 2008	Douglas E. Schaubel	University of Michigan
Thursday, Nov 13, 2008	Jeffrey Morris	MD Anderson Cancer Center
Thursday, Nov 20, 2008	Jean Opsomer	Colorado State University

Spring 2008

Date	Presenter	Affiliation
Thursday, March 27, 2008	Nikolay Yanev	Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Thursday, April 3, 2008	Karen Bandeen-Roche	Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday, April 9, 2008	Moonseong Heo	Weill Medical College
Thursday, April 17, 2008	Grace Yang	National Science Foundation
Thursday, April 24, 2008	Tanzy Mae Love	Carnegie Mellon University
Tuesday, April 29^, 2008	Marvin Zelen	Harvard School of Public Health