Pardis Sabeti earned her master's degree in human biology, and her doctorate in biological anthropology at The University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar where she specialized in genetic diversity and contributed articles to Encarta Africana, Genes and Immunity and Nature. She will shortly complete her M.D. at Harvard Medical School, and plans a career in academic medicine and research. Sabeti was born in Iran in 1974. She arrived in the US at age 4 and now resides in Orlando; Fla. Sabeti plays guitar and bass and is the lead singer of a rock band.