Professor Patty Solomon

Professor of Statistical Bioinformatics

Office: 436 | Telephone: +61 8 8303 3033 | Personal homepage [1]

Academic duties

Responsibility
Member of the Research Committee

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Pre-processing of Proteomic Mass Spectra	Christopher Davies [2]	2008
Survival analysis in breast cancer	John Russell [3]	2007
Estimating influenza-associated mortality in Australia	Hannah Murdoch [4]	2006
	Renee Iannotti [5]

Thesis title	Student	Graduation
Bayesian networks for high-dimensional data with complex mean structure [6]	Jessica Kasza [7]
Analysis of gene data from the microbial community in bioleaching [8]	Susana Soto Rojo [9]
Equivalence in gene expression studies [10]	Simon Tuke [11]

Research interest	Group
Gene expression studies [12]	Bioinformatics [13]
Design and analysis of microarray and other experiments [14]	Bioinformatics [15]
Analysis of proteomic spectra [16]	Bioinformatics [17]
Gene and protein networks [18]	Bioinformatics [19]
Data mining [20]	Bioinformatics [21]
Components of variance [22]	Bioinformatics [23]
Biostatistics [24]	Bioinformatics [25]
Survival analysis [26]	Bioinformatics [27]
Clinical trials [28]	Bioinformatics [29]
Critical care medicine [30]	Bioinformatics [31]
Monitoring and assessing health outcomes [32]	Bioinformatics [33]
Epidemiology [34]	Bioinformatics [35]
Biostatistics [36]	Biostatistics [37]
Survival analysis [38]	Biostatistics [39]
Clinical trials [40]	Biostatistics [41]
Critical care medicine [42]	Biostatistics [43]
Monitoring and assessing health outcomes [44]	Biostatistics [45]
Epidemiology [46]	Biostatistics [47]
Components of variance [48]	Biostatistics [49]
Gene expression studies [50]	Biostatistics [51]
Design and analysis of microarray and other experiments [52]	Biostatistics [53]
Analysis of proteomic spectra [54]	Biostatistics [55]
Gene and protein networks [56]	Biostatistics [57]
Statistical data mining [58]	Biostatistics [59]

Grant title	Funding Agency

Planning microarray experiments	Adelaide University ECMS
Identifying genes regulated by the amyloid precursor protein, a key factor in Alzheimer's dementia	Adelaide University Health Sciences
Disease surveillance and epidemic modelling	Adelaide University
Statistical design and analysis of microarray experiments	Adelaide University
Identification of gene expression patterns associated with cell proliferation, survival, differentiation and leukemia	National Institutes of Health (USA)
Designing Microarray Experiments	ARC

Publications
Gene profiling for determining pluripotent genes in a time course microarray experiment Tuke, Simon; Glonek, Garique; Solomon, Patricia, Biostatistics 10 (80–93) 2008
Modelling survival in acute severe illness: Cox versus accelerated failure time models Moran, John; Bersten, A; Solomon, Patricia; Edibam, C; Hunt, T, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 14 (83–93) 2008
Mortality and length-of-stay outcomes, 1993-2003, in the binational Australian and New Zealand intensive care adult patient database Moran, John; Bristow, P; Solomon, Patricia; George, C; Hatt, G, Critical Care Medicine 36 (46–61) 2008
New models for old questions: generalized linear models for cost prediction Moran, John; Solomon, Patricia; Peisach, Aaron; Martin, J, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 13 (381–389) 2007
Statistics in review; Part 1: graphics, data summary and linear models Moran, John; Solomon, Patricia, Critical care and Resuscitation 9 (81–90) 2007