Xiang Zhou, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, will present: "Statistical Methods for Spatial Transcriptomics" Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics is a collection of groundbreaking new genomics technologies that enable the measurements of gene expression with spatial localization information on tissues or cell cultures. Here, I will discuss a few new statistical methods that our group has recently developed for analyzing spatial transcriptomics data. Specifically, I will first talk about SPARK, a method that allows for rigorous statistical analysis…