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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D., senior associate member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; associate professor, Center for Systems Biology, department of organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University, and department of immunology and infectious disease, Harvard School of Public Health

Speaker bio(s)

We are in the midst of a revolution in the fields of genomics and public health. The completion of the human genome sequence, the availability of genome sequences from increasing numbers of related species, the availability of genome-wide human variation data and the ability to rapidly generate new data have created unprecedented opportunities to study human biology, evolution and disease. These same tools are also making it possible to carry out unprecedented studies in the microbial pathogens that affect humans. Dr. Sabeti's research goals are to use the rapidly emerging resources to develop and apply methods to investigate natural selection in the human genome; to study the genomic evolution of the microbial pathogens that affect humans; and to build new computational tools for studies of genomics and public health. The key infectious diseases of her lab’s current studies are Lassa fever, Ebola fever, Plasmodium Falciparum malaria and Vibrio Cholerae cholera.

Dr. Sabeti completed her undergraduate degree at MIT, her graduate work at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School as a Soros Fellow where she was the third woman ever to graduate summa cum laude. Dr. Sabeti’s work is currently supported by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award, a Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering, an NIH Innovator award and awards from NIAID, TMTI, DTRA and the Gates Foundation.

 

Dr. Sabeti is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Personal and Precision Medicine. She received the 2012 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for Natural Science and is a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. She has been a L’Oreal for Women in Science Fellow, a PopTech Science Fellow and has served on the MIT Board of Trustees and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Women in Science, Medicine, and Engineering. She carries out a number of activities to support women in science and science education in the United States and abroad.

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Alena Powell

Phone

(212) 327-7745

Sponsor

Alena Powell
(212) 327-7745
apowell@rockefeller.edu

Readings

http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=3195