Stan Connect 2021 - Biology, Medicine, Bioinformatics

This StanConnect event will take place on October 19, 2021, at 10AM EST.

Program

Tentative schedule (times in ET) of each event:

• 10am - 10:15am: Introduction to the Event by SGB representative, Introduction to theme by Session Chair.
• 10:15am - 11:15am: three 20-minute talks - 15 minute presentation + 5 minute Q&A.
• 11:15am - 11:20am: 5 minute break.
• 11:20am - 12:20pm: three 20-minute talks - 15 minute presentation + 5 minute Q&A.
• 12:20am - 12:30pm: 10-minute comment from invited panelist.
• 12:30pm - 1:00pm: Zoom Networking/Social session.

Speaker Name	Position/title/occupation	Affiliation	Tentative Talk Title
Mitzi Morris	Researcher	Columbia University	Coding the BYM2 model for disconnected graphs in Stan or how I stopped worrying and learned to love PC priors
Ethan Alt	PhD student	North Carolina University (Chapel Hill)	Normalized power prior models in Stan
Martin Modrák	Researcher	Czech Academy of Sciences	Using Hidden Markov Models as a complement/alternative to survival models
Teddy Groves	Postdoctoral researcher	Technical University of Denmark	Summarising enzyme information from online databases using Stan and Arviz
Nicholas Cowie	PhD student	Technical University of Denmark	Automated kinetic modelling in Stan and its application to the methionine cycle

Organizers:

Session Chair: Luiz Max Carvalho, PhD - Getúlio Vargas Foundation

Registration

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