ABSTAT18 Advanced Biostatistics for Bioinformatics Tool Users using RDownloadable poster in PDF |
IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
Candidates with adequate profile will be accepted in the next 72 hours after the application, until we reach 20 participants. |
Instructors: |
Lisete Sousa is an Associate Professor in Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) and
coordinates the Centre of Statistics and Applications (CEAUL) since January 2017. She obtained her PhD in Probability and Statistics
(Lisbon University and Dortmund University - Germany) in 2004, and since then she has taught the course Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
in the University of Lisbon, among other statistical courses for BSc. and MSc. Her main research interests are the development of statistical
methodologies for detecting differentially expressed genes, and the prediction of transmembrane proteins topology based on hidden Markov models
but adopting a Bayesian perspective. She coordinated the MSc in Biostatistics at FCUL, from 2009 to 2016, and collaborates with researchers from
the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM-FMUL) and from the Center for Biodiversity, Functional and Integrative Genomics (BioFIG-FCUL) in the
development of statistical methods for the analysis of Microarray and RNA-Seq data. She has been a GTPB instructor in the BFB course in 2010 and 2012, and the ABSTAT course in 2014 and 2017. Affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. |
Carina Silva graduated in Statistics and Operational Research and holds a MSc degree in Probability and Statistics from Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade
de Lisboa.She obtained a PhD in Probability and Statistics in 2012. She is Adjunct Professor at Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa
(ESTeSL - IPL) and she is the Diretor of the Natural and Exact Sciences Departament in ESTeSL. She teaches Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics
there. She is a member of the executive commission of CEAUL (Center of Statistics and Applications). She collaborates with the Genetics and
Metabolism Investigation Group of ESTeSL and with the Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Group of ISAMB (Instituto de Saú&de Ambiental, FMUL). She
also participated in the Gulbenkian Partnerships Development Programme in Maputo-Mozambique in January 2015. Affiliation: ESTeSL Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde de Lisboa, Lisboa, PT |
Course description |
This course is targeted for Biostatistical techniques often employed in analytical tools for high throughput data and multivariate data. Participants can expect to attend a thorough set of lectures that will reveal the conceptual frameworks that are needed to understand the methods. Extensive hands-on practice will be the main vehicle for providing the skills and user independence. To keep things in context, the course is exclusively based on biological examples. MethodologyThis intensive course will introduce a relatively high number of concepts and methods. To keep it highly practical, we will spend most of the time in hands-on sessions.
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Target Audience
Everybody using Bioinformatics methods is implicitly using statistical methods. Moreover, proper judgement of the results often calls for a deeper level of understanding than what is required to solve scholarly exercises. |
Course Pre-requisitesIntermediate level knowledge in Statistics is necessary. There is no time to provide basic knowledge, so we will need to assume that accepted candidates have self-assessed
for it in the following areas: |
Detailed Program |
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