2024 Lange Symposium on Computational & Statistical Genomics

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January 26, 2024 at UCLA

8:30 am - 4:00 pm

The Fourth Annual Lange Symposium was held January 26. 2024. This year’s topic was Computational & Statistical Genomics. This annual event is hosted by the UCLA Departments of Computational Medicine and Human Genetics, and supported in part by a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute; R25 HG011845. The Annual Lange Symposium was launched in 2020 to honor UCLA Professor and National Academy of Sciences Fellow Kenneth Lange. The event celebrates the impact of Dr. Lange’s research, mentorship, and teaching over the course of an illustrious career spanning more than four decades.

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Speakers

Recordings of the talks can be viewed by clicking on the talk titles

Eric Chi, Rice University
- Sampling meets optimization: Proximal MCMC and some applications
Susan Holmes, Stanford University
- How topic models help refine microbial communities in the study of preterm birth
Jessica Li, UCLA
- A unified statistical model for single-cell and spatial multi-omics data
Donald Martin, North Carolina State University
- Application of sparse Markov models to the classification of genome sequences
Sriram Sankararaman, UCLA
- Understanding the genetic basis of complex traits from Biobank-scale data: Statistical and computational challenges
Matthew Stephens, University of Chicago
- Empirical Bayes matrix factorization, and genomic applications

Diversity Travel Awards

Application closed

Each year we offer travel awards for attendees who will further the goal of increasing the diversity of the biomedical workforce. This includes persons from historically underrepresented groups (i.e., racial and ethnic minorities, first-generation college students, and persons with disabilities). You may also apply if you are faculty from an advanced degree granting institution with a high enrollment of underrepresented minority students, who would be interested in partnering with UCLA faculty to make symposium and workshop material available to their students.

Travel awards cover travel within the U.S., meals, and lodging.

Contact

For more information, including information on applying for a travel award, contact Jeanette Papp

Future Events

The 2025 Lange Symposium on Computational Statistics will be held at UCLA on Junuary 27, 2025.

Past Events

Information about past events, including links to selected video recordings, slides, software, exercises, and tutorials, are available at the links below