Speaker Profile
Ph.D., Assistant Professor, UCSC
Biography
In 2019, Dr. Miga co-founded the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium, an open, community-based effort to generate the first complete assembly of a human genome. Additionally, Dr. Miga is the Director of the Reference Production Center for the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC). Central to Dr. Miga’s research program is the emphasis on satellite DNA biology and the use of long-read and new genome technologies to construct high-quality genetics and epigenetic maps of human peri/centromeric regions.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track 2 - February 7 9.00 A.M.-2.45 P.M.
Track Chair:
Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- PMWC 2025 Luminary Award
Luminary Honoree: Jensen Huang, Nvidia
- Keynote
- Jensen Huang, Nvidia
- AI Horizons in Precision Medicine: Decoding Tomorrow’s Innovations
Chair: TBA
- Ken Drazan, ArsenalBio
- Beyond LLMs: Harnessing Advanced AI Models for Genomics and Transcriptomics (PANEL)
Chair: Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- Yasin Şenbabaoğlu, CZ Biohub San Francisco
- Asaf Zifran, PrismAI - Advancing Global Health through Data Sharing: Practical Strategies and Success Stories (PANEL)
Chair: Peter Goodhand, GA4GH
- Chris Lunt, All of Us
- Karen Miga, UCSC
- Philip Awadalla, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Knowledge Graphs, LLMs & Foundation Models for Enhanced Drug Development
- Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
- Paul Rejto, Pfizer
- Quantum Leap: The Future of AI and Machine Learning with Quantum Computing
Chair: Matthias Troyer, Microsoft
- Yudong Cao, Zapata Computing
