CSDE Affiliate Amanda Phipps and a team of co-authors published this work in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention. The study was exploring the associations between Fusobacterium nucleatum, tumor characteristics, and colorectal cancer survival. The authors highlight that the subspecies of these bacteria negatively impact mortality of colorectal cancer patients and note that effects are particularly driven during tumor stage shifts.
CSDE Computational Demography Working Group Hosts Peter D. Smits
This week, Peter D. Smits will join the CDMG Meeting to speak about his work as a Senior Applied Scientist at Truveta, a healthcare data startup based in Seattle. He was previously at Amazon’s Advertising division (2020-2021). He holds a PhD from the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago (2017), and was a postdoc at UC Berkeley in Integrative Biology (2017-2019). His training is in paleobiology and macroevolutionary biology; his academic work focused on analyzing macroevolutionary and macroecological patterns in the fossil record. His primary interests are Bayesian statistics; multilevel/hierarchical modeling; working with longitudinal, survival and count data; data science (especially working in R); and tabletop role-playing games.
Join this meeting on Wednesday, 11/17/2021, from 2:00 – 3:00 PM PT via THIS Zoom link.
CDWG meets via Zoom; its calendar of events can be found here.