Louisiana ASA Chapter
Louisiana Chapter of the ASA: Spring 2026 Meeting
The Spring 2026 meeting of the Louisiana ASA chapter will be held Friday 10 April 2026 on the LSU campus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Keynote speaker is Hyeongseon Jeon from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Houston. He will present two talks.
Keynote address 1: RNA-seq Analysis with Gene-Specific Covariates
Abstract: In this presentation, I will introduce a novel positive false discovery rate (pFDR) controlling method for testing gene-specific hypotheses using a gene-specific covariate variable, such as gene length. We suppose the null probability depends on the covariate variable. In this context, we propose a rejection rule that accounts for heterogeneity among tests by using two distinct types of null probabilities. We establish a pFDR estimator for a given rejection rule by following Storey’s q-value framework. A condition on a type I error posterior probability is provided that equivalently characterizes our rejection rule. We also present a procedure for selecting a tuning parameter through cross-validation that maximizes the expected number of hypotheses declared significant. Simulation studies demonstrate that our method is comparable to or better than existing methods across realistic scenarios. In data analysis, we find support for our method’s premise that the null probability varies with a gene-specific covariate variable.
Keynote address 2: A Overview of Hyeongseon Jeon’s Methodological and Team Science Research
Professor Jeon is excited at the prospect of sharing his work and engaging in a lively interaction with all of the meeting attendees! Please do your best to join us if you can.
Details about the meeting will be posted here as they become available, so please check back for details. We have room for some contributed papers. Please use this link to email Calvin Berry if you want to present a talk or if you have any questions about the meeting.
2026 Chapter Officers
President:
Siyi Chen
Biostatistics Section
LSU Health Science Center New Orleans
2020 Gravier Street, 3rd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
sche11@lsuhsc.edu
Vice President:
Junho Lee
Department of Experimental Statistics
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5606
junholee@lsu.edu
Secretary/Treasurer:
James Calvin Berry
Mathematics Department
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Box 43568
Lafayette, LA 70504-3568
cberry@louisiana.edu
Chapter Representative:
Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy
Mathematics Department
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Box 43568
Lafayette, LA 70504-3568
krishna@louisiana.edu
If you have any suggestions regarding the chapter such as: proposals for activities, potential speakers, or the like, please send them to the president.