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

Travel Awards

Application closed

Our travel award program solicits applications from around the country from scientists and trainees who would be otherwise unable to attend. You may also apply if you are faculty from an advanced degree granting institution with a high enrollment of students who would benefit from access to this material, 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

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Past Events

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