Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

• Alison Hill from “Program for evolutionary Dynamics” at Harvard visited the SISTM team twice (each time for 5 days) in May 2017 and July 2017. Main topic discussed was mechanistic modelling of new agents in HIV cure.

• Linda Valeri from “Harvard medical school” visited the SISTM team 3 days. Main topic discussed was mediation analysis in high dimension.

• Denis Agniel (RAND Corporation) visited B. Hejblum in Bordeaux for a week in May for a research collaboration

• Visiting PhD student from Marcus Altfeld's team: Annika Niehrs (2 week stay with SISTM).

Visits to International Teams

• Marta Avalos visited David Conesa 1 week in October through the Erasmus+ program Universidad de Valencia (Espagne).

• Mélanie Prague got invited in University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) for a 2-days research trip in the Biostatistics department on April 2-3 2017.

• Mélanie Prague spend 10 days in Boston as an invited researcher in Harvard School of Public Health, Biostatistics department on April 10-15 2017.

• Boris Hejblum visited Harvard University for a week in November 2017 for a research collaboration with Katherine Liao & Tianxi Cai.

Research Stays Abroad

• Marta Avalos was a research visitor at CSIRO's Data61 in Canberra, Australia from Dec. 2016 until June 2017. Collaboration with Cheng Soon Ong http://www.ong-home.my/

• Perrine Soret was a research student visitor at CSIRO’s Data61 in Canberra (Australia) from Feb. 2017 to April 2017. Collaboration with Cheng Soon Ong. Funding: The University of Bordeaux Initiative of Excellence and Zellidja travel grants for a research visit of 3 months.