Dna Today: A Genetics Podcast

Last episode (182) we were joined by Dr. Eric Green, the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the NIH. And we chatted about the recent completion of the human genome. To continue this conversation, I am joined by the co-founders of the Telomere to Telomere Consortium which lead this project!Dr. Karen Miga is an Assistant Professor in Biomolecular Engineering at The University of California, Santa Cruz. She is also the associate director of the UCSC Genomics Institute. The Miga Lab at UCSC focuses on genomic and epigenetic structure within human centromeres and constitutive heterochromatin, which are now emerging to the forefront of genomics. She received a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of Tennessee Knoxville and then went on to get a masters degree in genetics at Case Western Reserve University. Karen received her Ph.D. in genetics and computational biology from Duke University. She was named as “One to Watch” in the 2020 Nature's 10.Dr. Adam Phillippy is a Sen