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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Carlos D. Bustamante, Ph.D., professor of biomedical data science and genetics, founding director, Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary, and Human Genomics, director of informatics, Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

Speaker bio(s)

The biomedical enterprise is producing hundreds of thousands of sequenced genomes and exomes per year. While many of these are currently obtained through NIH (or other) funded research, in the near future, most will be coming from clinical care and direct-to-consumer providers. How do we think about these data and the opportunities they present to address fundamental questions in biology, medicine, and anthropology? Dr. Bustamante’s talk will highlight interesting findings that have come from unexpected reuse of previously acquired genomic data (such as the basal clade of the human Y chromosome, which was found by DTC testing of an African-American customer). Dr. Bustamante will discuss the opportunities and challenges, which include managing consent/user agreement, data and user privacy, and communication of these results to the public.

 

Dr. Bustamante is a population geneticist whose research focuses on analyzing genome-wide patterns of variation within and between species to address fundamental questions in biology, anthropology, and medicine. Much of his research is located at the interface of computational biology, mathematical genetics, and evolutionary genomics. His most current research centers on human population genomics and global health, including developing statistical, computational, and genomic resources for enabling trans- and multi-ethnic genome-wide association and medical sequencing studies of complex biomedical traits. He is one of the principal investigators of the recently announced ClinGen project to build the country's National Database of Clinically Relevant Genomic Variants.

 

Dr. Bustamante received his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University in 2001. He performed his postdoc at the University of Oxford. From 2002 to 2009, he was on the faculty at Cornell University in the department of statistical sciences and the department of biological statistics and computational biology, where he was promoted to full professor in 2008. Since 2010, he has been on the faculty in the department of genetics at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He has received multiple honors and awards, including a Marshall-Sherfield Fellowship (2001–2002), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2007), and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (2010).

Open to

Public

Host

Jean-Laurent Casanova, M.D., Ph.D.

Reception

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

Contact

Linda Hanssler

Phone

(212) 327-7714

Sponsor

Linda Hanssler
(212) 327-7714
lhanssler@rockefeller.edu

Readings

http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=4031