(All times are Helsinki times)
- 10:30-11:00: Welcome (Zoom link: NBBC21 Main)
- 10:30-10:40: Opening words, Tuomas Hytönen, Head, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki, Finland
- 10:40-10:55: Welcome speech, Andreas Kryger Jensen, President of the incoming regional executive committee of NBR, IBS
- 10:55-11:00: Sangita Kulathinal, Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee, NBBC 21
- 11:00-12:00: (Zoom link: NBBC21 Main)
- 11:00-11:45: Keynote speech Geometry and Statistics in the Analysis of multimodal data for the Microbiome Susan Holmes, Stanford University, USA (Click here to download slides)
- 11:45:12:00: Discussion, Krista Fischer, University of Tartu, Estonia
- 12:05-13:05: Parallel contributed session “Time-to-event and longitudinal data analysis”, Chair: Tommi Härkänen, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland (15 minutes for each talk) (Zoom link: NBBC21 Contributed 1)
- Andreas Gustavsson. Variance inflation due to censoring in survival probability estimates
- Krista Fischer et al. Analysis of overall mortality in biobank data: challenges of modeling and implications for the estimation of “biological age”
- Nele Taba. Predicting long-term outcomes of Type-2 diabetes and mortality from dietary patterns and metabolite-score
- 12:05:13:05: Parallel contributed session “Statistical inference”, Chair: Eva Petrošina, Rīga Stradiņš University, Lativa (25 minutes for each talk) (Zoom link: NBBC21 Contributed 2)
- Viktor Skorniakov et al. On the Optimal Configuration of a Square Array Group Testing Algorithm
- Nicola Orsini. Severity evaluations based on quantiles
- 13:05-15:30: Break
- 15:30-17:30: Invited session Omics for precision cancer medicine (25 minutes for each talk and 25 minutes discussion) (Zoom link: NBBC21 main)
- Organiser and chair: Manuela Zucknick, University of Oslo, Norway
- Speaker 1: Sampsa Hautaniemi: Towards precision medicine in ovarian cancer
- Speaker 2: Valeria Vitelli: Rank-based Bayesian inference for transcriptomic analyses in cancer
- Speaker 3: Ana Cichonska: Leveraging multi-way interactions for the prediction of anticancer effects of drug combinations
- Discussant: Junyan Lu, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
- 17:30-18:00: Break
- 18:00-20:00: Contributed session “High dimensional statistics”, Chair: Mikko Sillänpää, University of Oulu, Finland (20 minutes for each talk) (Zoom link: NBBC21 main)
- Jewel Sengupta et al. Artificial intelligence techniques for subarachnoid hemorrhage detection and consequence classification
- David Swanson. Localizing differences in smooths with simultaneous confidence bounds on the true discovery proportion
- The Tien Mai. Boosting heritability: estimating the genetic component of phenotypic variation with multiple sample splitting
- Tobias Wängberg et al. Graph-based Stochastic Neighbor Embedding for Robust Data Visualisations
- Beatriz Nunes Silva et al. Differentiation of six herbal extracts using principal component analysis
