Professor of Statistics and member of BioX, Stanford University.
John Henry Samter University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
co-Director of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences IDP.
Fellow of the Fields Institute.
Moderator for the stat.AP arxiv.
Editor for the IMS-Cambridge Series Monographs and Textbooks in Statistics and Probability.
I was a Researcher at INRA, Montpellier.
Office: Sequoia 102 and Clark S251.

Research

Brought up in the French School of Data Analysis (Analyse des Données) in the 1980’s, I specialize in exploring and visualizing complex biological data.

I am interested in integrating the information provided by phylogenetic trees, community interaction graphs and metabolic networks with sequencing data and clinical covariates.

I use computational statistics, in particular, nonparametric methods such as generalized svd, the bootstrap and MCMC to draw inferences about many complex biological phenomena. Applications I work on include interactions between the immune system and cancer, resilience in the human microbiome after antibiotic use and drug resistance in HIV.

I enjoy teaching using R and BioConductor and try to make everything I do freely available.

Upcoming and Recent Talks:

Statistical Learning in Biological Systems from Perturbations, Ascona, 2015
UseR! 2015 : Aalborg, Denmark, July 2015
Stamps, MBL Woodshole: August 2015
JSM, Seattle, August 2015.
BioinfoSummer, Sydney, 2015.
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Hawaii 2016.

Susan Holmes

Research

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