Pardis Sabeti is a core institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a leader in the Broad’s Infectious Disease and Microbiome Program. She is a professor at the Center for Systems Biology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Disease at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
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How rapid genome sequencing can help stop outbreaks
Researchers are working to track, and stop, outbreaks like Ebola more quickly by sequencing the genomes of pathogens as new cases appear.