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Resume and Cover Letter Workshop

Learn tricks to tailor your resume for jobs and internships, write compelling, impact-oriented bullet points, and create a cover letter that best reflects your strengths without repeating information from your resume. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: HRC 101. Accessibility Contact: Maggie Tarnawa. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Biostatistics Students. Wednesday, October 15, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM.

Biostatistics Seminar: l1-Regularized Generalized Least Squares

Speaker: Alex Gibberd, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Statistics, Lancaster University Presentation: l1-Regularized Generalized Least Squares Abstract: We study a simple l1-regularized generalized least-squares (GLS) estimator for high-dimensional regressions with autocorrelated errors. The estimation procedure consists of three steps: performing a LASSO regression, fitting an autoregressive model to the realised residuals, and then running a second-stage LASSO regression on the rotated (whitened) data. We examine the theoretical performance of the method in a sub-Gaussian random-design setting, assessing the impact of the rotation on the design matrix and how this impacts the estimation error of the procedure. We show that the GLS (and a feasible variant) maintain smaller estimation error than an unadjusted LASSO regression when the errors are driven by an autoregressive process. A simulation study verifies the performance of the proposed method, demonstrating that the penalized (feasible) GLS-LASSO estimator… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB). Campus room: HSEB 235. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, October 16, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Biostatistics Seminar: Mariano Gabitto, PhD, Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, Affiliate Professor of Statistics, University of Washington

Presentation title and abstract coming soon. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB). Campus room: HSEB 235. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, October 23, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Conducting a Strategic Job and Internship Search

Covers how to actively and strategically target roles aligned with your values, skills, and interests. Will include how-to’s for specific platforms such as Handshake and Interstride. Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/95778135658. Campus room: Zoom. Accessibility Contact: Maggie Tarnawa. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Biostatistics students. Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM. ZOOM.

UW Biostatistics & Fred Hutch Cancer Center Joint Faculty Retreat

This all-day in person event will explore opportunities to connect, learn, plan and collaborate. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Center for Urban Horticulture. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Meetings. Thursday, October 30, 2025, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM.

Biostatistics Seminar: Dannica Sutherland, PhD, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, The University of British Columbia

Summer Internship Panel

Hear from senior Biostats students who have completed summer internships. They’ll talk about the application and interview process, the day-to-day projects they completed, and what they would have done differently. Bring your questions! Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99733468980. Accessibility Contact: Maggie Tarnawa. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: Biostatistics students. Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM. Zoom.

Biostatistics Seminar: Pejman Mohammadi, PhD Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s

Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics - Online Short Courses

The role of causal inference in biomedical research: dare we speak of ‘effect’? The field of causal inference has seen a massive expansion in recent years and is now one of the most active areas of biostatistical research. The concepts and tools developed in causal inference are intended to support practitioners in their quest for evidence on causal relationships, often critical for scientific progress. While powerful, these tools can also be easily misunderstood or misused — this has made some biostatisticians and epidemiologists apprehensive of the growing prominence of the field. The symposium will address: how causal inference can be leveraged to inform the design and enhance the analysis of observational and randomized studies, including combinations of both; , how causal inference has stimulated the integration of machine learning into statistical inference; , how causal inference provides clarity on assumptions that suffice to infer causality from different study designs and informs strategies for… Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Conferences. Workshops. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Saturday, November 15, 2025, 8:00 AM – Sunday, November 16, 2025, 3:00 PM. For more info visit www.biostat.washington.edu.

Biostatistics Seminar: Integrating genetics and single-cell genomics to define non-coding mechanisms of common and rare diseases

Speaker: Saori Sakaue, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences, University of Washington Presentation: Integrating genetics and single-cell genomics to define non-coding mechanisms of common and rare diseases Abstract: Decades of genetic studies have systematically identified hundreds of thousands of associations between genotypes and human diseases. However, defining disease causal variants and genes within loci identified through genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has been extremely challenging, since 90% of disease alleles reside in non-coding regions, where disease alleles regulate gene expression rather than alter protein sequence. Only rarely can we pinpoint causal variants or their effector genes, as regulation can act over long distances and in a tissue-specific manner. Accurate enhancer-gene maps from disease-relevant cell types could prioritize causal alleles and genes, but current enhancer-gene maps are based on bulk-tissue datasets. These assays often do not capture granular… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB). Campus room: HSEB 235. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.

Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics - Online

The role of causal inference in biomedical research: dare we speak of ‘effect’? The field of causal inference has seen a massive expansion in recent years and is now one of the most active areas of biostatistical research. The concepts and tools developed in causal inference are intended to support practitioners in their quest for evidence on causal relationships, often critical for scientific progress. While powerful, these tools can also be easily misunderstood or misused — this has made some biostatisticians and epidemiologists apprehensive of the growing prominence of the field. The symposium will address: how causal inference can be leveraged to inform the design and enhance the analysis of observational and randomized studies, including combinations of both; , how causal inference has stimulated the integration of machine learning into statistical inference; , how causal inference provides clarity on assumptions that suffice to infer causality from different study designs and informs strategies for… Event interval: Ongoing event. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Conferences. Event sponsors: UW Biostatistics. Saturday, November 22, 2025, 8:30 AM – Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 1:00 PM. For more info visit www.biostat.washington.edu.

Biostatistics Seminar: William DeWitt, PhD, Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences, University of Washington

Fall Career Panel

Biostats program alumni will share their career journeys, impressions from their time in the program, and tips about hiring at their organizations. Panelists (subject to change): Si Cheng, Data Scientist at Netflix , Angela Zhang, Mathematical Statistician at the FDA. Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: N/A, Zoom link will be sent to registered attendees. Accessibility Contact: Maggie Tarnawa. Event Types: Information Sessions. Target Audience: School of Public Health graduate students, as well as graduate students in Statistics. Friday, December 5, 2025, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM. Zoom.

CLEAR Center Webinar: Placebo and Contextual Effects in Clinical Trials for Osteoarthritis: Lessons from the TeMPO Trial

Speakers: Jeffrey Katz, MD, MS Professor of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health. Clinical Director of the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Director of Research in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at BWH. Jamie Collins, PhD Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the Orthopaedic and Arthritis Center for Outcomes Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, USA. Director of the Biometry Consultancy Unit in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Director of the Data Management & Analysis Core of the Brigham Coordinating Center for the Arthritis Foundation’s Osteoarthritis Clinical Trials Network. Register here. Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: theclearcenter.@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Monday, December 8, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM. For more info visit theclearcenter.org.

Telling Your Story Through Interviews

How can you stand out during an interview to get a job offer? We’ll cover ways to formulate answers to common questions, practice most effectively, and handle nerves. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Campus room: HRC 370. Accessibility Contact: Maggie Tarnawa. Event Types: Workshops. Target Audience: Biostatistics Students. Friday, January 9, 2026, 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM.