Christina Ramirez
Education
- PhD Statistics/Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1999
- MS Statistics/Social Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1996
- BS Economics and Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, 1994
Areas of Interest
My research interests generally relate to uncovering the mechanisms behind HIV pathogenesis. To this end, I work closely with investigators in the clinical and basic sciences. I am particularly interested in HIV drug resistance mutation/recombination, viral fitness and coreceptor utilization. I work to develop methods to understand the evolutionary dynamics of gene regions under the selective pressure of the host immune system and antiretrovirals. I am also interested in complex, high-dimensional data analysis where we have large p and small n. These methods have been applied to infer relationships between virus genotype and phenotype.
Selected Courses
- Biostat 212: Distribution Free Methods
- Biostat 213: Statistical Simulation Techniques
- Biostat 273: Classification and Regression Trees (CART) and Other Algorithms
- Biostat 288: Seminar: Statistics in AIDS
- Biostat 240: Masters seminar and research resources