Events Calendar

YINS Seminar: Sunny Kishore and Xi Chen

Weekly Seminar
Event time: 
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: 
YINS See map
17 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

“Malaria and Mankind: A New Hypothesis, ” Sunny Kishore, MD, PhD

Summary: In this talk, Dr. Kishore proposes a new approach to cracking the age-old problem of how human malaria parasites escape immune responses. Using approaches borrowed from molecular biology, evolutionary medicine and cooperation theory, he examines a method to understand how early animals (malaria parasites) cooperate in primate and rodent hosts.

“Gift Exchange Networks in China,” Xi Chen, PhD

Summary: Dr. Chen will introduce his social network data collection in rural China in the form of spontaneous gift exchange records. Then he will also introduce two projects he has been engaged in using this data. The first one attempts to explain why the price of gifts keeps increasing in the past decade. The second project simulates and estimates a new structural pairwise model with individual heterogeneity based on individual utility maximization.