Statistics for Life Sciences Amsterdam
The research group Statistics for Life Sciences Amsterdam is a co-operation of
statisticians from or related to the Department of
Mathematics of the VU University Amsterdam and
the Korteweg-de Vries
Institute for Mathematics of the Universiteit
van Amsterdam. The group's research focusses on statistics in the area of
the life sciences. This includes the development and application of
probabilistics models for biological processes, the development
and assessment of statistical theory and tools for application to
biological and medical problems, and statistical analysis of data
that originate from the life sciences.
Coordinator
Mathisca de Gunst
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Participants
Fetsje Bijma
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Geert Geeven
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Shota Gugushvili
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Mathisca de Gunst
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Marianne Jonker
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Chris A.J. Klaassen
(Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, UvA)
Michael McAssey
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Aad van der Vaart
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Mark van de Wiel
(Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VUMC and
Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Wessel van Wieringen
(Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VUMC and Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
PhD students:
Rikkert Hindriks
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Rick Jansen (Dept. of Mathematics, VUA,
and Dept. of Integrated Neuroscience, CNCR, VUA)
Gwénaël Leday (Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Jakub Pecanka
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Beata Ros
(Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Olga Shcherbakova (Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Former members
Nicola Armstrong
Kees Jong
Bernadetta Tarigan
Geurt Jongbloed
Nadia Lalam
Luigi Palla
Fabio Rigat
Etienne Roquain
Adi Setiawan
Birgit Witte
Vacancies
At present there are no vacancies.
Research projects
- Carcinogenesis modelling
- Causal statistical inference in survival analysis
-
Modelling the gene network underlying neuronal outgrowth
- PET-imaging
- Proteomics analysis
- Statistical analysis of CGH and gene expression microarray data
-
Statistical analysis of spatiotemporal patterns of
activity in neuronal networks
- Statistics for dynamical systems
-
Statistics for genetic linkage and association studies
-
Statistics for ion channel kinetics
-
Statistics for MEG and fMRI data
Collaboration
The group collaborates with the following life sciences groups.
-
Clinical Neurophysiology/MEG Centre, VUMC
(Cees Stam)
- Department of Biological Psychology, VUA /
Nederlands Tweelingen Register
(Dorret Boomsma, Danielle Posthuma)
- Department of Clinical Physics and Information technology/Pet Center, VUMC
(Adriaan Lammertsma)
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
(James Robins)
- Department of
Experimental Neurophysiology, VUA
(Arjen Brussaard, Arjen van Ooyen, Klaus Linkenkaer, Jaap van Pelt)
- Department of Medical Genomics, VUMC
(Peter Heutink, Zoltán Bochdanovits)
- Department of Molecular and
Cellular Neurobiology, VUA
(Guus Smit, Ronald van Kesteren)
- Department of Neuroregeneration,
Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
(Joost Verhaagen)
-
Fytagoras Plant Science BV (Bert van Duijn)
- Micro Array Facility,
VUMC
(Bauke Ylstra)
Participation
The group participates in
Education
Bachelor:
The mathematics Department of the Vrije Universiteit offers
within the (Dutch) Bachelor program Mathematics a variant
"Biomedical Mathematics (Biomedische Wiskunde)".
For information click on
this page.
Master:
The mathematics Department of the Vrije Universiteit also offers within
the Master program Mathematics a variant "Mathematics with Life Sciences".
See this page.
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