UW Biostatistics MS Thesis Information Session
This Biostatistics MS Thesis information session will be held via Zoom and led by our admissions manager. The session will review the MS Thesis degree program's focus, format, curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on work experience, post-degree job outlook, admissions requirements, application process, and more. Time will also be set aside to answer any questions you may have. Please RSVP to receive the information session link.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
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: Statistical Frameworks for Dissecting Genetic Regulation in the Human Transcriptome
Presenter: Pejman Mohammadi, PhD, Associate Professor, UW School of Medicine; Principal Investigator, Seattle Children’s Research Institute
Title: Statistical Frameworks for Dissecting Genetic Regulation in the Human Transcriptome
Abstract: Transcriptomic diversity across individuals arises from multiple layers of RNA regulation, including pre-mRNA expression, splicing, degradation, and other processes. Yet most analyses remain confined to total gene expression. Modern RNA sequencing captures a wide spectrum of regulatory modalities such as alternative transcription initiation and termination, RNA stability, and isoform usage, offering a multidimensional view of RNA biology. However, integrating these heterogeneous signals into coherent statistical frameworks remains a major challenge.
I will begin by outlining how transcriptomic data bridge genetic variation and phenotype, then introduce Pantry, a multimodal framework that systematically generates diverse RNA phenotypes and integrates them with genotype…
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.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
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.
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.
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
UW Biostatistics MS Capstone Information Session
This MS Capstone information session will be held via Zoom and led by our admissions manager. The session will review the MS Capstone degree program's focus, format, curriculum, research opportunities, hands-on work experience, post-degree job outlook, admissions requirements, application process, and more. Time will also be set aside to answer any questions you may have. Please RSVP to receive the information session link.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Online. Accessibility Contact: Deb Nelson, nelsod6@uw.edu, 206-685-9323. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 1:00 AM – 2:00 AM.
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.
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
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.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
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.