Speakers

Dr. Karen Miga is an Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she serves as Associate Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute and Director of

Positions

• She is a co-founder of the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium, an international collaborative effort that produced the first complete sequence of a human genome.
• She also directs the Genome Center for the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) and serves on the leadership team of the international Human Pangenome Project (HPP), a Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Driver Project focused on advancing more complete, diverse, and representative human genome references through global collaboration.
• Through these efforts, she works to advance our understanding of human genetic diversity and its implications for genome biology and human health.

Areas of special interest

• Genomics and Genome Sequencing
• Human Genetic Diversity and Pangenomics
• International Scientific Consortia