Sarah Fortune
- Fellow 2010 Science Fellows
- Fellow PopTech 2010
- Speaker PopTech 2011
Archived blog posts
Collaboration alert: Sarah Fortune and Lukas Biewald
In 2010, Sarah Fortune came to PopTech looking for a solution. The 2010 PopTech Science Fellow and researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health had hit a wall in her research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. She needed a way to analyze streams of images of the bacteria - as quickly and cheaply as possible - or one line of her research would stall.
This week in PopTech: Fortune, genomes and tons of data
There’s always something brewing in the PopTech community. From the world-changing people, projects and ideas in our network, a handful of this week’s highlights follows.
When PopTech volunteer Brent Danley prompted his 12-year-old daughter Skye to choose one PopTech speaker who she’d like to meet, she picked 2010 presenter and 2009 Science Fellow Sarah Fortune. Read more »
PopTech 2011 blog recap: Part 1
We heard dozens of stage talks, saw incredible demos and performances, captured lots of video and wrote even more on our blog during PopTech 2011 – in addition to a constant flow on Twitter and Tumblr! Read more »
2010 Science Fellow Sarah Fortune
2010 Science and Public Leadership Fellow Sarah Fortune, Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is trying to figure out why the turberculosis microbacteria is so resistant. Her team has been studying the disease and the way it responds to various …