Pardis Christine Sabeti is an Iranian American computational biologist, medical geneticist, and evolutionary geneticist.
23 Facts About Pardis Sabeti
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Pardis Sabeti 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.
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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.
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Pardis Sabeti is the lead singer and a writer for the rock band Thousand Days and is the current host of the educational series Against All Odds: Inside Statistics sponsored by Annenberg Learner.
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Pardis Sabeti's show is included in many high school statistics curriculums, including the Research Statistics 1 and 2 Course at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.
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Pardis Sabeti was born in 1975 in Tehran, Iran, to Nasrin and Parviz Pardis Sabeti.
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Pardis Sabeti had a sister, Parisa, who was 2 years older.
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Pardis Sabeti's family fled Iran in October 1978, shortly before the Iranian Revolution, when Sabeti was two years old, and found sanctuary in Florida.
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Pardis Sabeti is an annual participant in the Distinguished Lecture Series at the acclaimed Research Science Institute at MIT for high school students.
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Pardis Sabeti's tests, extended haplotype homozygosity, the long-range haplotype test, and cross population extended haplotype homozygosity, are designed to detect advantageous mutations whose frequency in human populations has risen rapidly over the last 10,000 years.
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Pardis Sabeti created a series of videos with the goal of explaining statistics to high school and college students.
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Pardis Sabeti has via her collaboration with Michael Mitzenmacher an Erdos number of 3.
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In February 2021 Pardis Sabeti co-authored a paper in Nature Communications on how a certain level of COVID-19 anti-bodies may provide lasting protection against the virus.
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In September 2021, Pardis Sabeti joined the YouTube channel Crash Course to host its series on Outbreak Science.
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Pardis Sabeti was the 2012 recipient of Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the Natural Sciences category.
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Pardis Sabeti is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer.
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In 2015, Pardis Sabeti was selected for the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator award.
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Pardis Sabeti has received a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences, a Packard Foundation award in Science and Engineering, and an NIH Director's New Innovator Award, and a L'Oreal for Women in Science Fellowship.
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Pardis Sabeti was on the list of the BBC's 100 Women announced on 23 November 2020.
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Pardis Sabeti is the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Thousand Days.
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On July 17,2015, Pardis Sabeti suffered a near-fatal accident at a conference in Montana.
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Pardis Sabeti was a passenger in an ATV that went over a cliff, and catapulted onto boulders.
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Pardis Sabeti shattered her pelvis and knees, and sustained a brain injury.