Statistics for Life Sciences Amsterdam

The research of the Statistics for Life Sciences Amsterdam focusses on statistics in the area of the life sciences. It 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.

Vacancies

At present there are no vacancies.

Coordinator

Mathisca de Gunst (Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)

Participants

Mathisca de Gunst (Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Rikkert Hindriks (Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Mark van de Wiel (Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VUMC
Wessel van Wieringen (Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VUMC and Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)

PhD students:
Marina Dietrich (Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)
Luminita Maxim (Dept. of Mathematics, VUA)

Former members

Mehran Aflakparast
Nicola Armstrong
Fetsje Bijma
Dennis Dobler
Geert Geeven
Shota Gugushvili
Rick Jansen
Kees Jong
Geurt Jongbloed
Marianne Jonker
Chris Klaassen
Nadia Lalam
Gwénaël Leday
Michael McAssey
Olga Shcherbakova
Luigi Palla
Jakub Pecanka
Fabio Rigat
Etienne Roquain
Beata Ros
Adi Setiawan
Birgit Sollie
Bernadetta Tarigan
Aad van der Vaart
Birgit Witte

Research projects

Carcinogenesis modelling
Causal statistical inference in survival analysis
Modeling and statistics for brain network dynamics
Modelling the gene network underlying neuronal outgrowth
PET-imaging
Statistical analysis of CGH and gene expression microarray data
Statistics for dynamical systems
Statistics for genetic linkage and association studies
Statistics for ion channel kinetics
Statistics for MEG and fMRI data
Statistics for the blood coagulation system
Survival analysis

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 Integrated Neurophysiology, VUA (Huibert Mansvelder, Klaus Linkenkaer, Arjen van Ooyen, Jaap van Pelt)
Department of Medical Genomics, VUMC (Peter Heutink, Zoltan Bochdanovits)
Department of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, VUA (Guus Smit, Ronald van Kesteren)
Department of Neuroregeneration, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (Joost Verhaagen)
Micro Array Facility, VUMC (Bauke Ylstra)

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.