Pardis Sabeti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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biologist
Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1975
Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
Profession: physician, biologist
Nationality: Iran
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
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About Pardis Sabeti
- Pardis Christine Sabeti (Persian: ????? ??????) (born December 25, 1975 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American computational biologist, medical geneticist and evolutionary geneticist.
- She developed a bioinformatic statistical method which identifies sections of the genome that have been subject to natural selection and an algorithm which explains the effects of genetics on the evolution of disease.In 2014, Sabeti was part of a team led by Christian Happi, a Cameroonian geneticist, which used advanced genomic sequencing technology to identify a single point of infection from an animal reservoir to a human in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
- RNA changes suggests that the first human infection was followed by exclusive human to human transmissions.
- The work led her to be named one of TIME Magazine's Persons of the Year in 2014 (Ebola Fighters), and one of the TIME 100 most influential people in 2015.Sabeti is a full professor in the Center for Systems Biology and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and on the faculty of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H.
- Chan School of Public Health, and is an institute member at the Broad Institute and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
- She is the head of the Sabeti Lab.Sabeti is the lead singer and a writer for the rock band Thousand Days.
- and is also the current host of the educational series Against All Odds: Inside Statistics sponsored by Annenberg Learner.
- Her show is included in many high school statistics curriculums, including the Research Statistics 1 Course at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST).
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