Course Description
Please join us for this free webinar series where FAES faculty expand on topics they teach in their FAES courses.
FAES Educational Webinar Series: Statistics for Terrified Biologists
December 3, 2025 from 12 - 12:30PM ET
Location: Live Online (The link to join the webinar will be sent to you via email at 11:15AM December 3, 2025) Note you will have to register with Teams to access the webinar
Speaker: Johannes P. Doehl, Ph.D., Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow, NIAID (STAT 014, STAT 016)
In biological science, statistics is often treated like a family's least favorite cousin; we do not want to deal with him, but we cannot avoid acknowledging him. I cannot recount the number of freshman biology majors I have encountered who were dismayed when discovering that biology is not the fabled math-free science. Perhaps, this is in part the reason why stats education is often so poor in biology bachelor's programs; it sure was for me. Ironically, while most of us are certainly not trained to be statisticians, we are all expected to be able to perform statistics correctly. As a consequence, biological science publications often teem with errors in the applied statistics to sometimes devastating consequences. Thus, in this brief presentation, I hope to show you that getting to know your least favorite cousin may show you that despite the family rumors, he is in fact a good friend and when treated with kindness and understanding will always lend you a helping hand and help you to stay honest.
Dr. Johannes P. Doehl is a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). He earned his Ph.D. in Parasitology from the University of York, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship investigating host immune responses to Leishmania infection. At NIAID, Dr. Doehl’s research focuses on host–parasite interactions involving tick-borne pathogens and local immune mechanisms. Dr. Doehl also has deep interest in biostatistics and has acquired substantial knowledge on this topic over the past decade. As a biologist, he appreciates the challenges biologists face in biostatistics and strives to make biostatistics more accessible to biologists.
Dr. Doehl teaches two statistics-focused workshops for FAES: Statistics in Biomedical Sciences Using GraphPad Prism (STAT 014) and Best Practices for Statistical Presentation in Publications and Presentations (STAT 016). Through his teaching, he aims to strengthen statistical literacy among biologists to improve study design, data interpretation, and transparency in scientific reporting.
Click here to view an archive of our past webinars, many with full recordings.
Join FAES for the Following Upcoming Events:
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November 13, 2025 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Elise Marsan, Ph.D., Investigator, Center for Alzheimer's and Related Dementias, NIA; Ph.D. from Sorbonne Universities; Neuroscientist
This talk presents human iPSC-derived multicellular organoids and organotypic slice cultures from primate brain as innovative models to study neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s and related dementias. These systems enable investigation of primate-specific neurons and circuits, revealing cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying selective neuronal vulnerability in AD/ADRD-affected brain regions.
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Science Insight Series: Antibody Engineering in Medicine: Phage Display and Nanobodies
December 4, 2025 from 11:45 – 1:00 pm ET (must arrive by 12PM)
Location: FAES Learning Labs Classrooms
Speaker: Mitchell Ho, Ph.D.
This lecture will introduce phage display technology and its application in developing nanobodies. Phage display is a high-throughput, cost-effective method for drug discovery. The Ho Lab at the NCI has constructed nanobody phage display libraries derived from sharks and camels, which possess unique features valuable for developing therapeutics to treat cancer, infectious diseases, and other human illnesses.
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December 10, 2025 from 12:00pm – 12:30pm ET
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Join the FAES Academic Programs Team to learn more about our Fall courses, workshops, and our scholarship program.
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FAES Virtual Information Session: Translate Your FAES Coursework into a Hood College Graduate Degree
January 20, 2026 from 12 – 12:30 pm ET
Location: Live Online
Join us FAES and Dr. April Boulton, Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate School at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. Learn about flexible graduate degrees at Hood College and how your FAES coursework can count toward a Hood College degree or certificate in bioinformatics, health informatics, project management and other areas.
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