Inférence statistique causale et ses applications à la génétique

25 juillet au 19 août 2016

Programme

 

Le lundi 25 juillet 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Inscription et café croissants


Salle(s) de réunion : M-415

09:30 - 10:20
Frederick Eberhardt
(Caltech)
Constraint-based methods for causal discovery
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 10:50
Peter Spirtes
(Carnegie Mellon University)
Identifying reliable and useful sub-networks from the output of causal search algorithms
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
10:50 - 11:20
Pause-café
11:20 - 11:50
Elias Bareinboim
(Purdue University)
Causal inference and the data-fusion problem
Résumé
11:50 - 12:20
Steffen Lauritzen
(University of Copenhagen)
Total positivity and Markov structures 
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
12:20 - 13:45
Pause-déjeuner
13:45 - 14:15
Shohei Shimizu
(Osaka University)
A non-Gaussian approach for causal structure learning in the presence of hidden common causes
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
14:15 - 14:45
Tom Claassen
(Radboud University Nijmegen)
A fast and efficient approach to exploit Mendelian randomization to find causal regulatory relationships among genes
Résumé
14:45 - 15:15
Jin Tian
(Iowa State University)
Bayesian approach to causal structure learning
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
15:15 - 15:40
Pause-café

15:40
Discussion

 

Le mardi 26 juillet 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants


Salle(s) de réunion : M-415

09:30 - 10:20
John Marioni
(EMBL-EBI)
Single-cell biology - computational challenges and opportunities
Résumé
10:20 - 10:50
Karen Sachs
(Stanford University)
Causal learning in signaling networks
Résumé
10:50 - 11:20
Pause-café
11:20 - 11:50
Kerstin Meyer
(CRUK Cambridge Institute)
Network approaches to understanding genome-wide association studies in breast cancer
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
11:50 - 12:20
Lawrence McCandless
(Simon Fraser University)
Unmeasured confounding, large datasets, and the role of Bayesian inference
Résumé
12:20 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 14:30
Garvesh Raskutti
(WID)
Moralization, overdispersion and interventions: Learning large-scale DAG models
Résumé
14:30 - 15:00
Sunduz Keles
(University of Wisconsin Madison)
iFunMed: Integrative Functional Mediation analysis of GWAS and eQTL   with data-driven prior information
Résumé
15:00 - 15:30
Hyunseung Kang
(Stanford University)
Confidence interval with possibly invalid instruments even after controlling for many confounders
Résumé

15:30
Session d'affiches
Salle(s) Hall d’honneur

 

Le mercredi 27 juillet 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants


Salle(s) de réunion : M-415

09:30 - 10:20
Oliver Stegle
(European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
Using deep molecular phenotypes to uncover genetic mechanisms
Résumé
10:20 - 10:50
Sisi Ma
(New York University)
Applications of causal discovery methods in health sciences
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
10:50 - 11:20
Pause-café
11:20 - 11:50
Simon Gravel
(McGill University)
When is selection effective?
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
11:50 - 12:20
Daniel Marbach
(Université de Lausanne)
Mapping tissue-specific circuits to reveal pathways disrupted in complex diseases
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
12:20 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 14:30
Luis Barreiro
(Université de Montréal)
How social status causally changes the immune system: experimental evidence from rhesus macaques
Résumé
14:30 - 15:00
Alan Hubbard
(University of California at Berkeley)
Targeted learning for high-dimensional variable importance
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Pause-café

15:30
Open Problems

 

Le jeudi 28 juillet 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants


Salle(s) de réunion : M-415

09:30 - 10:20
Vanessa Didelez
(University of Bremen)
Recent challenges for Mendelian randomisation analyses
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
10:20 - 10:50
Dylan Small
(The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Discovering effect modification in observational studies
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
10:50 - 11:20
Pause-café
11:20 - 11:50
Sonja Swanson
(Erasmus Medical Centre)
Mendelian randomization: Can we see the forest for the IVs?
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
11:50 - 12:20
Po-Ling Loh
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)
High-dimensional learning of linear causal networks via inverse covariance estimation
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
12:20 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 14:30
Olli Saarela
(University of Toronto)
A doubly robust estimator for indirect standardization
Résumé
14:30 - 15:00
Celia Greenwood
(Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research)
Projected and constrained Mendelian randomization as a robust instrumental variable method for causal inference in high dimensional settings
Résumé

Diapos / Slides
15:00 - 15:30
Pause-café

15:30
Discussion

 

Le vendredi 29 juillet 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants


Salle(s) de réunion : M-415

09:30 - 10:20
James Robins
(Harvard School of Public Health)
An interventional approach to mediation analysis
Résumé
10:20 - 10:50
Lauréat de la compétition "Défi inférence causale"
10:50 - 11:20
Geneviève Lefebvre
(Université du Québec à Montréal)
A Bayesian finite mixture of bivariate regressions model for causal mediation analyses
Résumé
11:20 - 11:50
Pause-café
11:50 - 12:20
Michael Eichler
(Maastricht University)
Causal inference from multivariate time series: Principles and problems
Résumé
12:20 - 12:50
Samantha Kleinberg
(Stevens Institute of Technology)
Causal inference with uncertain data
Résumé

12:50
Fin de l'atelier