Survival: Evolutionary Forces in Humans and Pathogens | Pardis Sabeti

Описание: We are in the midst of a revolution in the fields of genomics and public health. The availability of genome-wide sequence and variation data and the ability to rapidly generate new data have created unprecedented opportunities to study human biology, evolution, and disease. These tools are making it possible to carry out studies in the microbial pathogens that affect humans, such as Lassa, Ebola and Zika virus. They also may be used to develop and apply methods to investigate natural selection in the human genome and build new computational tools for studies of genomics and public health.

This talk is part of the Survival symposium, a fascinating series of talks focusing on evolution and the challenges of building a better, safer and more survivable future.

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Survival was presented by The Leakey Foundation in partnership with Harvard University's Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, NOVA, NOVA Labs, SMASH, and WGBH.

About the speaker:
Dr. Pardis Sabeti is an Associate Professor at the Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, and a Howard Hughes Investigator. Dr. Sabeti is a World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leader and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, and was named a TIME magazine ‘Person of the Year’ as one of the Ebola fighters. Dr. Sabeti is a computational geneticist with expertise developing algorithms to detect genetic signatures of adaptation in humans and the microbial organisms that infect humans.