Karen H. Miga | |
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| Born | Karen Elizabeth Hayden |
| Known for | Telomere to Telomere Project |
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| Institutions | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Thesis | A Genomic Definition of Centromeres in Complex Genomes (2011) |
| Doctoral advisor | Huntington Willard |
| Website | www |
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Karen Elizabeth Hayden Miga is an American geneticist who co-leads the Telomere-to-Telomore (T2T) consortium that released fully complete assembly of the human genome in March 2022.[1] She is an assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz and Associate Director of Human Pangenomics at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. She was named as "One to Watch" in the 2020 Nature's 10 and one of Time 100’s most influential people of 2022.[2]
- ^ "Researchers generate the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome". Genome.gov. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
- ^ Doudna, Jennifer (May 23, 2022). "The 100 Most Influential People of 2022: Michael Schatz, Karen Miga, Evan Eichler, and Adam Phillippy". Time. Retrieved 2023-10-18.