At last year's Big Data in Biomedicine conference, Stanford geneticist Carlos Bustamante, PhD, spoke about the potential of using genetic information to answer fundamental questions in biology, medicine and anthropology. In this video from the 2014 event, Bustamante explains his lab's efforts to better understand the structure of human genome, how genetic variations are portioned among different human populations and the significance of this information for designing medical genetic studies.
Bustamante will return to the Big Data in Biomedicine conference in May to moderate the genomics session. Speakers for the session are Christina Curtis, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and genetics at Stanford; Yaniv Erlich, PhD, assistant professor of computer science at Columbia University and a core member at the New York Genome Center; David Glazer, director of Engineering at Google and founder of the Google Genomics team; and Heidi Rehm, PhD, director of the Partners Laboratory for Molecular Medicine and associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School.
The conference will be held May 20-22 at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at Stanford; registration details can be found on the event website.
Previously: Big data used to help identify patients at risk of deadly high-cholesterol disorder, Examining the potential of big data to transform health care and Registration for Big Data in Biomedicine conference now open
