taste of science: Genomics and public health

Pathogen genomics and public health

It's been said that big data is new oil, tofu etc. In this talk, we'll interact over pint(s) to understand how big data in healthcare can be utilized to investigate the effectiveness of treatments in Type-2 Diabetes. We'll discuss the oppurtunities, challenges and limitations of big observational data analytics in healthcare.

Speaker: Duncan MacCannell, Centers for Disease Control

Mapping brain connections to improve treatment of mental illness

Depression and anxiety affect over 400 million people globally and are leading causes of disability. At present, diagnoses of these disorders don’t take into account the biology of the brain and there is no way to predict if a treatment is going to be effective for an individual patient. In my research, I leverage data from the Human Connectome Project, a large effort to map connections between areas of the brain, to improve diagnosis and treatment of depression and anxiety.

Speaker: Leonardo Tozzi, Stanford

Editor's Note: We had incorrectly listed this event for October 31.  This is the correct date.