Dr Julia Brettschneider
[Research] [Supervision] [Biography][Publications] [Teaching]
Research interests
- Statistical methodology for high-dimensional data (e.g. gene expression profiles)
- Quality assessment and improvement for high-dimensional data (e.g. microarrays, X-ray detectors, additive layer manufacturing)
- Spatial modelling (e.g. microscopic images, colocalisation of proteins, dead pixels)
- Modeling decision-making processes involving complex information (cancer recurrence risk, biographic profiles)
- Intuitive versus normative concepts of probability, risk and uncertainty and implications on decision making (e.g. in behaviour finance)
Supervision
Topics typically come from applied statistics such as from the areas listed above. Students with an interest in a suitable topic of their choice, whether included in the list or not, are encouraged to contact me for this to be considered.
PhD
Giovanni Burrow (Bridges programme) started in October 2016 on a project jointly supervised with Dr Vicky Henderson about regret theory applied to individual trader data; Ella Kaye (OxWaSP) started in October 2016 on a project jointly supervised with Dr Anastasia Papavasiliou and Dr David Steinsaltz about multi-level methods for complex social data; Sherman Ip (OxWaSP) started in October 2016 on a project jointly supervised with Prof Tom Nichols about modelling noise in computed tomography; Matthew Burgess started October 2013 on a project about empirical challenges in behavioural finance and passed his PhD viva in February 2018; Tom Honnor started in October 2012 on a project jointly supervised with Dr Adam Johanson, about measurement of protein colocalisation tracked by fluorescent confocal microscopy images and videos and graduated with PhD in 2017; Chui Shan Cheung started in January 2012 on a project jointly supervised with Prof Jane Hutton, about statistical aspects of large breast cancer screening data sets and passed her MPhil viva in 2017.
Master dissertations
Ahmed Babikir (MMORSE 2016/17), Grace Wei Ting Chan (MMORSE 2016/17), Cassie Jingyi Huang (MMORSE 2016/17), Lily Li Zeng (MMORSE 2016/17), Jack Carter (MMORSE 2015/16), Niki Sandhu (MSc 2015/16), Prajay Avlani (MMORSE 2015/16), Chui Shan Cheung (MPhil 2017), Nikesh Lad (MMathStat 2014/15), Liam Mohan (MMORSE 2013/14), Iain Barrett (MMORSE 2013/14), Emily Smith (MMORSE 2013/14), Tom Suchen Jin (MMORSE 2013/14), Hiren Patel (MSc 2011/12), Mitya Moitra (MSc 2011/12), Nurgul Batyrbekova (MMORSE 2013/14), Catherine Hunter (MMORSE 2011/12), Gergana Ivanova (MMORSE 2011/12), Solange Moniquette (MMORSE 2011/12), Mark Streather (MMORSE 2011/12), Shin Yip (MMORSE 2011/12), Joanna Chan (MSc 2010/11), Wendy Nga-ching Yeung (MMORSE 2010/11), James Thomas (MMORSE 2010/11), Parit Shah (MMORSE 2012/11), Magdalena Roszczuk (MSc 2009/10), Tom D Hargreaves (MMORSE 2007/08), Laura J Bonnett (MMORSE 2007/08)
Supervision in previous institutions
Jing Jin: Master's thesis in epidemiology, Dept of Community Health and Epidemiology at Queen's, 2006-2009; Shiqin Helen Guan: Master's thesis in statistics, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's, 2006/07; Peng Wu: Master's thesis in statistics, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics at Queen's, 2006/07
Short biography
* UG in Mathematics (with Computer Sciences and Psychology) in Bonn, Germany
* PhD (2001) in Mathematics, Supervisor Prof. H. Föllmer, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
* Postdoctoral fellow in Computational Biology at Eurandom, Netherlands
* Vis Ass Prof and Research Statistican, Dept of Stats at University of California at Berkeley, US
* Ass Prof, Dept Math/Stats & Dept Community Health/Epidemiology & Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Canada
* Ass Prof (2007-2010), Assoc Prof (since 2010), Dept Stats, University of Warwick, UK
Recent publications and manuscripts
JA Brettschneider, M Burgess
Using a frailty model to measure the effect of covariates on the disposition effect
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-05, 2017
S Cheung, JL Hutton, JA Brettschneider
Review of sojourn time calculation models used in breast cancer screening
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-04, 2017
F M Nixon, T R Honnor, NI Clarke, GP Starling, AJ Beckett, AM Johansen, JA Brettschneider, IA Prior, SJ Royle
Microtubule organization within mitotic spindles revealed by serial block face scanning EM and image analysis
Journal of Cell Science, April 2017, 15;130(10):1845-1855. doi: 10.1242/jcs.203877
TR Honnor, AM Johansen, JA Brettschneider
A nonparametric test for dependency between between estimated local bulk movement patterns
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-03, 2017
JA Brettschneider, JW Warnett, TE Nichols, WS Kendall
Higher level spatial analysis of dead pixels on detectors based on local grid geometry
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-02, 2017
TR Honnor, JA Brettschneider, AM Johansen
Differences in spatial point patterns with applications to subcellular biological structures
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 17-01, 2017
M McFarlane, J Brettschneider, A Gelsthorpe, S James, D Snead, K Gopalakrishnan,
R Arasaradnam, J Jankowski, H Mehenna and C Nwokolo
An assessment of candidate genes to assist prognosis in gastric cancer (submitted)
Kueh A, Warnett JM, Gibbons GJ, Brettschneider J, Nichols TE, Williams MA, & Kendall WS
Modelling the Penumbra in Computed Tomography
Journal of X-ray science and technology, 24 (4), 2016, 583-97 (Gold Access)
J Brettschneider
Practical uses of quality assessment for high-dimensional gene expression data
in Aston et al (Eds): UK Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics, Chapter 29, Springer, 2016.
Preliminary version
Brettschneider J, Thornby J, Nichols TE and Kendall WS
Spatial analysis of dead pixels
CRiSM Working Paper Series No. 14-24, 2014
Brettschneider J
Quality assessment for high-throughput genomic data in research and clinical practice, Impact Statement REF2014, Unit of assessment: Mathematical Sciences, Summary impact type: Technological. Download here (REF website)
Brettschneider J
Decision making in adjuvant cancer treatment choices based on complex information, including genomic recurrence risk scores, Abstract, Decision Making Bristol 2014, September 2014
Brettschneider J
On uniform convergence in ergodic theorems for a class of skew product transformations
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 29 (3), March 2011, 873-891
Download here (Journal website) or from arXiv
Foster CJ, Farmer P, Baetz T, Brettschneider J, Feilotter HE and LeBrun DP
Differential expression of cell cycle regulatory proteins defines distinct classes of follicular lymphoma
Human Pathology, Volume 42, Issue 7, July 2011, 972-982
Guan SH, Bonnett L, and Brettschneider J
Using gene subsets in the assessment of microarray data quality for time course experiments
CRISM research paper 09-24, May 2009
Hickey JG, Myers SM, Tian X, Zhu SJ, Shaw JLV, Andrew SD, Richardson DS, Brettschneider J and Mulligan LM
RET-dependent gene expression patterns distinguish RET isoforms but not oncogenic mutants
Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, 48(5), 429-440, May 2009
Abstract and download from here (Wiley)
Brettschneider J, Collin F, Bolstad BM, and Speed TP
Quality assessment for short oligonucleotide arrays (with 5 commentaries and rejoinder)
Technometrics, 50(3): 241-264 (article), 279-283 (rejoinder), Aug 2008
Download from here (ASA)
Magalhaes T, Feilotter H and Brettschneider J
Comparison of five prominent expression measures and quality assessment and control for affymetrix microarrays
Work in progress
Brettschneider J
Shannon-McMillan type theorems for random fields along curves and lower bounds for surface-order large deviations
Probability Theory and Related Fields, 142 (3), 443-473, Nov 2007
Downlaod from here (Springer) or from arXiv
Guan SH, Zheng J, and Brettschneider J
Microarray data quality assessment for developmental time series
In: Barber S, Baxter PD, and Mardia KV (eds.)
Systems Biology & Statistical Bioinformatics, Leeds University Press, July 2007
Download abstract from LASR Proceedings here
Barrier A, Lemoine A, Boelle PY, Tse C, Brault D, Chiappini F, Brettschneider J, Lacaine F, Houry S, Huguier M, Van der Laan MJ, Speed TP, Debuire B, Flahault A and Dudoit S
Colon cancer prognosis prediction by gene expression profiling
Oncogene, 24(40): 6155-6164, Sep 2005
Abstract and download from here (nature)
Bolstad BM, Collin F, Brettschneider J, Cope L, Simpson K, Irizarry RA, and Speed TP
Quality assessment of affymetrix genechip data
In Gentleman R, Carey V, Huber W, Irizarry R, and Dudoit S (eds.)
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor, Springer, New York, 2005
Description of the book is here (Springer)
Marciano PG, Brettschneider J, Manduchi E, Davis JE, Eastman S, Raghupathi R, Saatman KE, Speed TP, Stoeckert CJ, Jr., Eberwine JH and McIntosh TK
Neuron-specific mRNA complexity responses during hippocampal apoptosis after traumatic brain injury
Journal of Neuroscience, Mar 2004, 24(12): 2866-76
Abstract and download from here (J. Neurosci.)
Recently taught courses
Games, Decision and Behaviour (ST222)
Module for second year MORSE, MathStat and Maths students, Warwick University, Fall term 2014, Fall term 2015, Fall term 2016, Fall term 2017
Advanced Topics in Biostatistics (ST414)
Statistical methods for large data sets
Module for 4th year and MSc students, Warwick University, Spring term 2015
Statistical Laboratory (ST104)
Module for first year MORSE and MathStat students, Warwick University, Summer term 2014
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (ST952)
Module for MSc students, Warwick University, Fall term 2013
Probability A/B (ST111/ST112)
Module for first Math year students, Warwick University, Winter term 2012
Advanced Topics in Biostatistics (ST416)
Statistical methods for large biological data sets
Module for 4th year and MSc students, Warwick University, Fall term 2011, 2012
Probability A/B (ST111/ST112)
Module for first year Math students, Warwick University, Winter term 2011, 2012
Probability A (ST111)
Module for first year Math and MORSE and MathStat students, Warwick University, Winter term 2010
Games and Decisions (ST114)
Module for first year students, Warwick University, Winter term 2008
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics (ST952) (with Dr Heather Turner)
Module for MSc students, Warwick University, Fall term 2007
Topics in Applied Statistics (with Dr David Steinsaltz)
Seminar course for graduate students, Queen's University, Winter term 2007
Statistics for Genomics
Lecture course for forth year students, Queen's University, Fall term 2006
Some recent presentations
Talk about Sampling Biases (Newton Institute workshop (UQ) March 8, 2018)
Email:
Contact:
Rm C1.11, Department of Statistics
Mathematics & Statistics Building
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL