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Jessica received the 2025 Mortimer Spiegelman Award

Jessica received the 2025 Mortimer Spiegelman Award from the American Public Health Association (APHA) in recognition of her outstanding contributions to public health statistics. The award is presented annually by the APHA’s Applied Public Health Statistics Section to a statistician under the age of 40 who has made significant contributions to the field. As part […]

JSB Lab moved to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

We are excited to announce that the Junction of Statistics & Biology (JSB) Lab has officially relocated to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington. Starting July 1, 2025, Dr. Jingyi Jessica Li began her new role as Professor and Program Head of the Biostatistics Program at Fred Hutch, where she also holds the Donald […]

Guanao’s review paper on methods for detecting spatially variable genes was published in Nature Communications

Guanao’s review paper on methods for detecting spatially variable genes was published in Nature Communications

We published a comprehensive review of computational methods for detecting spatially variable genes (SVGs) in spatial transcriptomics data—an essential task for understanding tissue organization and function. Despite the growing number of available methods, inconsistencies in how SVGs are defined and detected have led to results that are often difficult to compare. In this review, we […]