SynBioBeta Speaker
Laura Luebbert
FutureHouse
Postdoctoral Fellow
Laura is an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellow and FutureHouse AI-for-Science Postdoctoral Fellow working with Prof. Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She specializes in machine learning methods for infectious disease discovery and triage. During her PhD at Caltech, Laura developed gget, a widely adopted open-source toolkit for genomic and proteomic analysis with over 300k downloads worldwide, and created algorithms to discover hidden viral sequences in RNA sequencing data. Her primary interests lie in understanding the role of viruses in human health and disease, as well as building machine learning models to assist high-stakes clinical triage in West Africa.
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