CANSSI Ontario STAGE: Kathryn Roeder

“Statistics and Genetics Offer a Window into Autism” at the International Speaker Seminar Series of CANSSI Ontario STAGE.

Join us online on December 4 to hear from Dr. Kathryn Roeder, who is Professor of Statistics and Life Sciences in the Departments of Statistics and Data Science and Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University, as she speaks about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a disorder that has been unusually challenging to unravel, and the innovative statistical approach that helped implicate 102 genes in the largest ASD exome sequencing study to date.

Dr. Roeder has developed statistical and machine learning methods in a wide spectrum of areas, including high dimensional data problems in genetics. Her work focuses on statistical methods to reveal the genetic basis of complex disease. She is one of the leaders of the Autism Sequencing Consortium, an international organization dedicated to discovering the genetic etiology of autism. She received the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents’ Award (1997), Snedecor Award for outstanding work in statistical applications (1997) and Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (2020). She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2019 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

You will be able to ask questions live!

The STAGE International Speaker Seminar Series (ISSS) launched in October 2010 as part of the STAGE (Strategic Training for Advanced Genetic Epidemiology) Program at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health. STAGE operates with the support of CANSSI Ontario under the direction of Drs. Shelley B. Bull and Jennifer Brooks.

Seminars are generally held on the first Friday of every month, October to May, 12-1 pm EST.