The department has a colloquium series in which both senior and junior faculty from around the country travel to Rochester to give a seminar and meet with faculty and students. The department also hosts an annual lecture by a distinguished statistician in honor of Dr. Charles L. Odoroff, the founding Director of the Division of Biostatistics (now the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology) at the University of Rochester, and another annual lecture in honor of Dr. Andrei Yakovlev, who as Chair led a substantial expansion of the department, particularly in the areas of bioinformatics and computational biology.
^ Charles L. Odoroff Memorial Lecture
* Andrei Yakovlev Colloquia
Spring 2025
Date
| Presenter | Affiliation |
| Thursday, April 10, 2025 | Joel Dubin | University of Waterloo |
| Thursday, May 1, 2025^ | Ruth Pfeiffer | National Institute of Health (NIH) |
Fall 2024
Spring 2024
Fall 2023
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, September 7, 2023* | William F. Rosenberger | George Mason University |
| Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Robert T. Krafty | Emory University |
| Thursday, September 28, 2023 | Rebecca Hubbard | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thursday, October 12, 2023 | Joseph Antonelli | University of Florida |
| Thursday, November 9, 2023 | Anne Eaton | University of Minnesota |
Spring 2023
Fall 2022
Spring 2022
Spring 2020-Fall 2021
In-person and public seminars limited due to COVID-19 restrictions and faculty search candidate seminars
Fall 2019
Spring 2019
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Erin Conlon | University of Massachusetts |
| Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Ingo Ruczinski | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thursday, April 11, 2019 | Ashley Petersen | University of Minnesota |
| Thursday, April 25, 2019 | Dylan Small | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thursday, May 9^, 2019 | Sharon-Lise Normand | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
Fall 2018
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Monday, September 17, 2018* | Amy Herring | Duke University |
| Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Marco Carone | University of Washington |
| Thursday, October 18, 2018 | Maryclare Griffin | Cornell University |
| Thursday, November 1, 2018 | Mike Daniels | University of Florida |
| Thursday, November 15, 2018 | Jeff Goldsmith | Columbia University |
| Thursday, November 29, 2018 | Benjamin Risk | Emory University |
Spring 2018
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, March 1, 2018 | Paul McNicholas | McMaster University |
| Thursday, March 22, 2018 | Anthony Almudevar | University of Rochester |
| Thursday, April 12, 2018 | Linda Valeri | Harvard University/McLean Hospital |
| Friday, April 20, 2018 | Bhramar Mukherjee | University of Michigan |
| Thursday, May 10^, 2018 | Per Kragh Andersen | University of Copenhagen |
Fall 2017
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Sept 14, 2017* | Martin Wells | Cornell University |
| Thursday, Sept 28, 2017 | Lynn Lin | The Pennsylvania State University |
| Thursday, Oct 5, 2017 | Christopher Schmid | Brown University |
| Thursday, Oct 26, 2017 | Dean Follmann | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
| Thursday, Nov 9, 2017 | Xiao Wang | Purdue University |
| Thursday, Nov 30, 2017 | Xing Qiu | University of Rochester |
Spring 2017
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Feb 9, 2017 | Lindsay Renfro | Mayo Clinic |
| Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 | Julian Wolfson | University of Minnesota |
| Thursday, Mar 2, 2017 | Mireille Schnitzer | Universite de Montreal |
| Thursday, Mar 23, 2017 | Joshua Warren | Yale University |
| Thursday, Apr 6, 2017 | Abdus Wahed | University of Pittsburgh |
| Thursday, Apr 13, 2017 | Jeff Leek | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thursday, Apr 27^, 2017 | Colin B. Begg | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| Thursday, May 18, 2017 | Scott Zeger | Johns Hopkins University |
Fall 2016
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Sept 8, 2016* | Richard Cook | University of Waterloo |
| Thursday, Sept 29, 2016 | Jennifer Bobb | Group Health Research Institute |
| Thursday, Oct 13, 2016 | John Muschelli | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thursday, Oct 27, 2016 | Kristin Linn | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thursday, Nov 3, 2016 | Sumanta Basu | Cornell University |
| Thursday, Nov 17, 2016 | Mike Elliott | University of Michigan |
| Thursday, Dec 1, 2016 | Martin Morgan | Roswell Park Cancer Institute |
| Thursday, Dec 15, 2016 | John Rice | University of Rochester |
Spring 2016
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Jan 14, 2016 | Ollivier Hyrien | University of Rochester |
| Thursday, Feb 11, 2016 | Jason Fine | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
| Thursday, Mar 17, 2016 | W. Evan Johnson | Boston University |
| Thursday, Apr 7, 2016 | Anand Vidyashankar | George Mason University |
| Thursday, Apr 21, 2016 | Daniel Gaile | State University of New York at Buffalo |
| Thursday, May 5^ | Roderick Little | University of Michigan |
Fall 2015
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Sept 24, 2015* | Heping Zhang | Yale University |
| Thursday, Oct 1, 2015 | Julie McIntyre | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| Thursday, Oct 15, 2015 | Kimberly Glass | Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| Thursday, Oct 29, 2015 | Steven Piantadosi | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
| Thursday, Nov 12, 2015 | Steven T. Piantadosi | University of Rochester |
| Thursday, Dec 3, 2015 | Michael Rosenblum | Johns Hopkins University |
| Wednesday, Dec 16, 2015 | Tongtong Wu | University of Rochester |
Spring 2015
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Jan 22, 2015 | Sally Thurston | University of Rochester |
| Thursday, Feb 12, 2015 | Betsy Ogburn | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thursday, Mar 26, 2015 | Dan Heitjan | Southern Methodist University |
| Thursday, April 9, 2015 | Cheng Yong Tang | Temple University |
| Thursday, April 30^, 2015 | Marie Davidian | North Carolina State University |
Fall 2014
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Sept 18*, 2014 | Dan Scharfstein | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thursday, Oct 2, 2014 | Scott Evans | Harvard University |
| Thursday, Oct 16, 2014 | Keith Baggerly | MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Thursday, Oct 30, 2014 | John Staudenmayer | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Thursday, Nov 13, 2014 | John Fricks | Pennsylvania State University |
| Thursday, Dec 4, 2014 | Hongyu Miao | University of Rochester |
Spring 2014
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Jan 23, 2014 | Douglas E. Schaubel | University of Michigan |
| Thursday, Mar 6, 2014 | Russell Taki Shinohara | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thursday, Mar 27, 2014 | Jacob Bien | Cornell University |
| Thursday, Apr 10, 2014 | Jim Ramsay | McGill University |
| Thursday, May 1^, 2014 | Thomas A. Louis | Johns Hopkins University |
| Thursday, May 15, 2014 | Brian Caffo | Johns Hopkins University |
Fall 2013
Spring 2013
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Jan 19, 2012 | Judith Lok | Harvard School of Public Health |
| Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 | Dawn Woodard | Cornell University |
| Thursday, Mar 8, 2012 | Haibo Zhou | University of North Carolina |
| Thursday, Apr 19, 2012 | Ian McKeague | Columbia University |
| Thursday, May 3^, 2012 | Nancy Geller | NIH/NHLBI |
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Feb 17 , 2011 | John Kolassa | Rutgers University |
| Thursday, Mar 10, 2011 | Gong Tang | University of Pittsburgh |
| Thursday, May 12, 2011 | Mary Sammel | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thursday, May 19, 2011 | Haipeng Shen | University of North Carolina |
| Thursday, May 26^, 2011 | Amita Manatunga | Emory University |
Fall 2010
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Sep 9*, 2010 | Michael Kosorok | University of North Carolina |
| Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 | Ping Ma | University of Illinois |
| Thursday, Nov 4 , 2010 | Jerry Lawless | University of Waterloo |
| Thursday, Nov 11, 2010 | Nick Holford | University of Auckland |
| Thursday, Dec 2, 2010 | Hongyu Zhao | Yale University |
| Tuesday, Dec 7, 2010 | Bradley Carlin | University of Minnesota |
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 | Alexander Tsodikov | University of Michigan |
| Thursday, Apr 1, 2010 | Eric J. Kalendra | North Carolina State University |
| Friday, Apr 16^ , 2010 | Raymond J. Carroll | Texas A&M University |
| Tuesday, Apr 27, 2010 | Zhiguo Li | University of Michigan |
| Thursday, Apr 29, 2010 | Deb Sinha | Florida State University |
| Thursday, May 6, 2010 | Junfeng Liu | University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey |
| Thursday, May 20, 2010 | Laurel A. Beckett | University of California at Davis |
Fall 2009
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Sept 17*, 2009 | Dean Follmann | NIH/NIAID |
| Thursday, Sept 24, 2009 | Ruiguang Song | Centers for Disease Control |
| Thursday, Oct 8 , 2009 | Hui Zou | University of Minnesota |
| Friday, Oct 23, 2009 | Rustom Antia | Emory University |
| Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 | Christopher Coffey | University of Iowa |
| Thursday, Dec 10, 2009 | Minge Xie | Rutgers University |
Spring 2009
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Jan 15, 2009 | Martin Meier-Schellersheim | National Institutes of Health |
| Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 | Hongzhe Li | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thursday, April 2^, 2009 | Terry M. Therneau | Mayo Clinic |
| Thursday, April 23, 2009 | Lili Tian | SUNY at Buffalo |
| Thursday, Apr 30, 2009 | Jeremy Taylor | University of Michigan |
Fall 2008
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, Sept 18*, 2008 | Yi Li | Harvard School of Public Health |
| Thursday, Sept 25, 2008 | Jane-Ling Wang | University of California, Davis |
| Thursday, Oct 23, 2008 | Kung-Sik Chan | The University of Iowa |
| Thursday, Nov 6, 2008 | Douglas E. Schaubel | University of Michigan |
| Thursday, Nov 13, 2008 | Jeffrey Morris | MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Thursday, Nov 20, 2008 | Jean Opsomer | Colorado State University |
Spring 2008
| Date | Presenter | Affiliation |
|---|
| Thursday, March 27, 2008 | Nikolay Yanev | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| Thursday, April 3, 2008 | Karen Bandeen-Roche | Johns Hopkins University |
| Wednesday, April 9, 2008 | Moonseong Heo | Weill Medical College |
| Thursday, April 17, 2008 | Grace Yang | National Science Foundation |
| Thursday, April 24, 2008 | Tanzy Mae Love | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tuesday, April 29^, 2008 | Marvin Zelen | Harvard School of Public Health |
