Biostatistics Core
Project Lead: Ana-Maria Iosif, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator: Shuai Chen, Ph.D.
The overall goal of the Biostatistics Core of the UC Davis Conte Center is to ensure that sound experimental design and rigorous statistical analyses are used to address the scientific aims of the Center and advance our understanding of how early maternal immune activation alters brain development in offspring, leading to structural and functional changes in the brain that are associated with the emergence of psychopathology in adolescence and young adulthood. The Biostatistics Core is highly integrated with all components of the Conte Center and provides Conte Center investigators with comprehensive statistical support, from the conception and design of the study, the implementation of quality control methods, and the development and use of analysis strategies that will achieve estimation and hypothesis testing objectives, to the completion of data analysis and presentation of results. Core personnel consults with Center investigators throughout all phases of their projects from planning to interpretation of results. Core faculty also have a strong commitment to advancing the education mission of the Center and participate extensively in training and mentoring of Center trainees and young investigators in the areas of biostatistics and research design. Finally, faculty involved in the Core develop new biostatistical methodology as challenges and opportunities arise in pursuit of the Center's research goals.
- Conte center investigators and trainees can submit an online request for statistical support.