Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Societies Involvement

• Boris Hejblum is a member of the chairing committee of the Société Française de Biométrie, the French Chapter of the International Biometric Society

• Boris Hejblum is a board member of the “MAchine Learning et Intelligence Artificielle” (MALIA) group of Société Française de Statistique (SFdS)

• Mélanie Prague is a board member of the “Jeunes Statisticien.ne.s” group of SFdS

• Marta Avalos is a board member of the “Stat&Sport” group of SFdS

Scientific Events: Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Mélanie Prague co-organized with Jérémy Guedj from Inserm the 4th Workshop on Virus Dynamics https://viraldynamics.sciencesconf.org, 21-23 October in Paris, France.

Scientific Events: Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Robin Genuer Co-organizes a reading group called "Smiling in Bordeaux" (http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~mchave100p/smiling/)

• Boris Hejblum organizes the Biostatistics Seminar Series at the Bordeaux Population Health Inserm Research Center

• Boris Hejblum co-organizes the Bordeaux Statistics Seminar Series (https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/category/367/)

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Mélanie Prague was a member of the 51th Days of Statistics (JdS), the most important annual scientific event in the French-speaking statistical community, organized by the French Statistical Society (SFdS), June 2019, Nancy, France

• Rodolphe Thiébaut was a member of the scientific committee of the national conference on clinical research (EPICLIN)

• Rodolphe Thiébaut is a member of the scientific committee of the IWHOD International Workshop on HIV Observational Databases since 2013 (http://iwhod.org/Committee) and chair in 2020.

Reviewer

• NeurIPS (Robin Genuer)

• Workshop at NeurIPS 2019 "ML4H: Machine Learning for Health" (Marta Avalos)

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Lifetime Data Analysis (Daniel Commenges)

• Statistics Surveys (Daniel Commenges)

• Associate editor of International journal of Biostatistics (Melanie Prague)

• IMIA Yearb Med Inform (Rodolphe Thiébaut)

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• AIDS (Rodolphe Thiébaut)

• Am J Public Health (Mélanie Prague)

• Biometrics (Mélanie Prague, Boris Hejblum)

• Bioinformatics (Boris Hejblum)

• IMIA Yearb Med Inform (Marta Avalos)

• International Journal of Epidemiology (Daniel Commenges)

• Journal of Computation Statistics and Data Analysis (Boris Hejblum)

• Journal of the American Statistical Association (Robin Genuer)

• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Interaction (Mélanie Prague)

• JRSS-B (Mélanie Prague)

• Operations research (Robin Genuer)

• PLOS Computational Biology (Boris Hejblum)

• Society of clinical trial (Mélanie Prague)

• Statistical Methods in Medical Research (Mélanie Prague)

• Statistical science (Mélanie Prague)

• Trials (Laura Richert)

Invited Talks

• 3rd EcoSta Conference – 25-27th June 2019. Taïchung, Taïwan. A variance component score testapplied to RNA-Seq differential analysis. [B Hejblum]

• 12th International Conference of the ERCIM Working Group on Computational and Methodological Statistics – 14-16th December 2019, London, UK. Scaling up nonparametric Bayesian clustering with MCMC for big data applications. [B Hejblum]

• The 9th International Digital Public Health Conference – 20-23 November 2019, Marseille, The Challenges of Implementing Healthcare Technology and Innovation across Europe and Beyond [R Thiebaut]

• Conférence du centre de recherche du CHU de Sainte Justine – 17 October 2019, Montreal, Canada - Science des données en épidémiologie clinique: exemples en vaccinologie. [R Thiebaut]

• 4th Workshop on viral dynamics – 21-23rd October 2019, Paris - Modeling to optimize vaccine development against Ebola [R Thiebaut]

• INFECTION, IMMUNITY AND INFLAMMATION PROGRAMME Mini-symposium Mathematical Immunology in memoriam Robin Callard - 3rd October 2019, Institute of Child Health, London - Modelling in Immunology from 2007 to tomorrow, an overview of the work done with and inspired by Robin Callard [R Thiebaut]

• Workshop ITUN CESI, CHU Nantes, 3rd September. Understanding and predicting the effect exogeneous IL-7 in HIV infected patients through mathematical modelling: toward personnalised medicine. [R Thiebaut]

• 14th Colloquium of ADEA La transformation du système de santé : l’hôpital de demain, Cambo les Bains, September. L’intelligence artificielle [R Thiebaut]

• Robin’s Callard symposium – Institute of Child Health, London – 4 October [R Thiebaut]

Oral contributions in conferences and colloquium

• Several members contributed to the 51th Days of Statistics (JdS), the most important annual scientific event in the French-speaking statistical community, organized by the French Statistical Society (SFdS), June 2019, Nancy, France [R Genuer, M Prague, M Avalos]

• UseR! 2019, Toulouse, France – July 2019. VICI: a Shiny app for accurate esti-mation of Vaccine Induced Cellular Immunogenicity with bivariate modeling. [B Hejblum]

• Joint Statistical Meeting 2019, Denver, USA – July 2019. Can you trust differential expression methods for RNA-seq data analysis ? [B Hejblum]

• 6th Colloque francophone international sur l'enseignement de la statistique 2019, Nancy, France– June 2019. Enseigner la science des données en santé publique [B Hejblum]

• Medinfo 2019, Lyon, 25-30 August 2019 [R Thiebaut]

• Several Talks at Virus Dynamics, October, Paris [R. Thiebaut, M. Alexandre, Q. Clairon].

• 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS) [H. Lorenzo].

• GDR Statistics and Health, Paris, France, October 2019 [L. Villain].

• StatOmique day - November 2019 [M. Gauthier]

Poster contributions in conferences and colloquium

• The French Health Data System applied to health research Meeting - June 2019, Rennes, France [M Avalos]

• PAGE June Stocholm [M. Prague, M. Alexandre]

• StatOmique day - Novembrer 2019, Paris [L. Villain]

Scientific Expertise

• Rodolphe Thiébaut is an expert for INCA (Institut National du Cancer) for the PHRC (Programme hospitalier de recherche Clinique en cancérologie) and for the PRME (Programme de recherche médico-économique en cancérologie).

• Rodolphe Thiébaut is a member of the CNU 46.04 (Biostatistiques, informatique médicale et technologies de communication).

• Rodolphe Thiébaut is a member of the Scientific Council of Inserm.

• Rodolphe Thiébaut is a member of the commitee “Biologie des Systèmes et Cancer (Plan Cancer)”, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the “Institut Pierre Louis d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique” (UPMC, Dir : Dominique Costagliola), a member of the independent committee of international trials ODYSSEY and SMILE, a member of the scientific council of Muraz's Center (Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso)

• Mélanie Prague is an expert for ANRS (France Recherche Nord&Sud Sida-HIV Hépatites) in the CCS13 (Recherches cliniques et physiopathologiques dans l'infection à VIH) and AC 47.

• Laura Richert is an expert for the PHRC (Programme hospitalier de recherche Clinique).

• Marta Avalos is an expert for the ANSM (Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé)

Research Administration

• Daniel Commenges is the director of the Biostat-Info axis in the Inserm BPH (Bordeaux Public Health) institute.

• Rodolphe Thiébaut is the director of the department of Public Health in University of Bordeaux and a member of the Inserm Scientific Council

• Laura Richert is coordinator of the Clinical epidemiology module of the Clinical Investigations Center (CIC1401 Bordeaux)