Karen Miga
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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]
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Karen H. Miga | |
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Born | Karen Elizabeth Hayden |
Known for | Telomere to Telomere Project |
Scientific career | |
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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