23 - 27 September 2024
Nice, France

Exposome Analytics will be held at Université Côte d’Azur from 23rd to 27th September 2024. Each day begins with lectures introducing theoretical concepts, followed by a seminar and a practical session to illustrate these concepts.

Learning outcomes

After Exposome Analytics, students will be:

  • familiar with the concepts and challenges of the analysis of both external and internal exposome data
  • able to implement integrative analysis of high-dimensional (blocks of) exposome data
  • able to develop rigorous and reproducible research in the field of exposome analytics
  • able to produce and interpret visualisations of results
  • able to adopt a causal approach to analyse exposome data and charcaterise potential embodiement of external exposures.

Who would benefit

Exposome Analytics is designed for academics (students and researchers) and industry scientists (pharmaceuticals, insurance, food industries) with experience in analysing large and complex data sets. Ideal candidates include researchers seeking to deepen their knowledge in data analysis and integration for exposome research. Proficiency in basic statistics and R statistical software is desirable.

Participants should bring their own laptops.
There is space for 40 participants.

Keynote speakers

Professor Roel Vermuelen, Utrecht University
Professor Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Imperial College London
Professor Sonia Dagnino, University of Nice

Scientific programme

Monday - warm up

Morning

Introduction to Exposome analytics in practice Professor Marc Chadeau-Hyam
Refresher on data analysis: Univariate, Dimensionality reduction, Feature selection

Keynote: An integrative approach to lung cancer risk

Professor Marc Chadeau-Hyam

Professor Sonia Dagnino

Afternoon Practical session: explore a real data set Imperial College London team

Monday - stability selection

Morning

Concept of stability selection: application to regression models (with/ without interaction) Ruben Colindres
Other applications of stability selection: PLS; graphical models

Keynote: Exposome analytics vs environmental epi – what’s new?

Ruben Colindres & Rin Wada

Professor Roel Vermeulen

Afternoon Practical session: Stability selection on real data Imperial College London team

Wednesday - clustering

Morning

Definitions, algorithms, calibration Thomas Wright & Rin Wada

Consensus clustering and stability calibration: theory and applications

Keynote: Expotypes: exposome profiling in large populations 

Ruben Colindres & Rin Wada

Professor Marc Chadeau-Hyam & Ruben Colindres

Afternoon Practical session: worked examples of multiple clustering algorithms on simulated and real data; introduction to sparse clustering Imperial College London team

Thursday - casual modelling 1

Morning

Introduction to causal framework and mediation analyses Ruben Colindres & Helene Colineaux

Seminar: Causal modelling in practice


Helene Colineaux

Afternoon Practical session: worked examples on real data G computation Imperial College London team

Friday - casual modelling 2

Morning

Penalised structural causal modelling Ruben Colindres

Seminar: Causal discovery using deep learning and AI


Salome Kakhaia

Afternoon Practical session: PSCM on the same data Imperial College London team

Course fees

Course fees include lunch, group dinner event and social events

Academics: £1,800
Industry: £2,500
Discount of £500 for EXPANSE and LongITools partners

Payments can be made by credit card or purchase order