Pardis Christine Sabeti (Persian: پردیس ثابتی; born December 25, 1975) is an Iranian Americancomputational biologist, medical geneticist (MD), and evolutionary geneticist.[2] 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.
Sabeti, who grew up listening to Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails, fronts and writes songs for Thousand Days, which blends alt rock and what one critic calls “guitar-heavy pop music.” The band’s fourth album came out this year.
She had been working with deadly viruses in Nigeria, see portrait film: