Acquired Mutations and Clonal Selection in Human Biology

Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

Steven McCarroll, Ph.D., Dorothy and Milton Flier Professor of Biomedical Science and Genetics, department of genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School; Director of Genomic Neurobiology, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Speaker bio(s)

Steven McCarroll and the scientists in his lab develop ways to use DNA to understand human biology and disease. His lab has discovered surprising ways in which genes and alleles shape human biology—from cancer (clonal hematopoiesis) to schizophrenia (complement component 4 genes). Many of their discoveries have involved unexpected insights arising from new ways of analyzing biological systems and human DNA. The lab also develops technologies (such as Drop-seq) for turning aspects of biology into “big data” problems in which computational approaches can be used together with laboratory experiments.

Dr. McCarroll studied math and economics as an undergraduate at Stanford. He began working in molecular neuroscience as a Ph.D. student in Cori Bargmann’s lab at UC San Francisco. He worked as a postdoc with David Altshuler at the Broad Institute, then started his own lab in the Genetics Department at Harvard Medical School, where he is now the Dorothy and Milton Flier Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Genetics.

Open to

Public

Host

Sohail Tavazoie

Reception

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

Contact

Justin Sloboda

Phone

(212) 327-7785

Sponsor

Justin Sloboda
(212) 327-7785
jsloboda@rockefeller.edu