“R语言在环境与生态统计中的应用高级研修班”通知
为了加强R语言在环境与生态统计中的应用，提高我校人才培养质量和推动西部一流大学建设，宁夏大学西北土地退化与生态恢复国家重点实验室培育基地特邀美国杜克大学生物统计学杨丽娜博士，在宁夏大学举办“R语言在环境与生态统计中的应用高级研修班”。
研修班组织形式：采取讲座、专题讨论的形式
研究班地点：宁夏大学A区（贺兰校区）科技综合楼A510室
研修班时间：2017年6月14日-15日，共2天。
上午8:30-12:00；下午2:30-5:30
欢迎广大师生届时参加！
主讲人杨丽娜博士简介
Lina Yang, MS
1721 White Pine Dr. Durham, NC 27705
(919)667-8960 • lina.yang@duke.edu
www.linkedin.com/in/linayang1
EDUCATION
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, College of Medicine, Hershey, PA
Ph.D. of Biostatistics, Present
DUKE UNIVERSITY, School of Medicine, Durham, NC
Master of Biostatistics 2015-2017
Master’s Project
Multivariate Analysis of Gene Expression Signatures and Association of Pathologic Complete Response (pCR) in Triple‐Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)
State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
Master of Physiology, January 2015. Chinese Student and Scholar Association President
Research Assistant, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology 2012-2015
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Bachelor of Biological Science, June 2012. Graduated with Top Academic Students Scholarship
EXPERIENCE
DUKE UNIVERSITY, Durham, NC 2016-2017
Research Intern,Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Department
· Involved in LungMAP project and developed a pipeline for immunofluorescent image segmentation to annotate developing mouse lung with machine learning algorithms.
Research Intern,Duke Cancer Institute
· Conducted statistical analysis to evaluate risk of lobectomy, completion, or total thyroidectomy procedures by comparing time to early complication and likelihood of readmission and emergency department (ED) visits for patients who were treated with a specific procedure.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 2015
Research Intern,Department of Biostatistics
Involved in genome-wide association study and performed genotype imputation using sequencing based reference from the 1000 Genomes Project.
SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 2012-2015
Research Assistant, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
· Proved lack of sodium/proton exchanger on endosome membrane can cause autism spectrum disorders in mouse model.
· Found 4 pairs of top significant gene-gene interactions that can potentially cause schizophrenia.
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
· Anderson, K., Yang, L., Stang, M., Thomas, SM., Hyslop, T., and Sosa, J. Increase hazard of early complications in total thyroidectomy. American Surgical Association 137th meeting
· Yang, L., Faraone, SV. and Zhang-James, Y. Autism Spectrum Disorder Traits in Slc9a9 Knock-out Mice, Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2016
· Zhang-James, Y., Yang, Li., Middleton, F., Yang, L., Patak, J. and Faraone, SV. Autism-related Behavioral Phenotypes in an Inbred Rat Model, Behav Brain Res, 2014. 269: p. 103-14
Poster Presentations
· Yang, L., Neely, B., White, S., and Chan, C. Implementing an Immunofluorescence Image Segmentation Pipeline for the Annotation of Developing Mouse Lungs, Poster presented on Duke Industry Statistics Symposium, Durham, USA, Sep 2016
· Glatt, S., Roe, C., Yang, L. and Faraone, SV. Interaction Among Candidate SNPs for ADHD and Schizophrenia: Comparison of Family-Based and Case-Control Methods, poster presented on World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics, Boston, USA, Oct 2013
MEMBERSHIP
Member, American Statistical Association
Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science
CERTIFICATIONS
SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9
SKILLS
Python, R, SAS, STATA, LaTeX, PLINK, Spark, SQL, C, C++
