Deanna M. Church

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Deanna Church
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma mater University of California, Irvine
Known for Genomics
Scientific career
Fields Bioinformatics
Institutions10x Genomics
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Doctoral advisor John J. Wasmuth

Deanna Church is a scientist working in the areas of bioinformatics and genomics. She is known for her work on the human genome, "making the genome a friendlier place". [1]

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Life

Church graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia [2] in 1990. She received a doctorate in genomics from University of California, Irvine in 1997. At the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Church completed her postdoctoral training in the field of developmental biology under the mentorship of Dr. Janet Rossant. [3] Church describes her passion for bioinformatics as connected to her enjoyment of problem solving and being in a team that has direct impacts on people's medical care. [4]

Work

Church worked for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) from 1999 until 2013. [5] While there, she headed NCBI's team in the Genome Reference Consortium, an international group focusing on refining data on the human genome. [2] She was part of the group involved in releasing GRCh38, a build of the human genome that included centromere sequences for the first time. [6]

In 2013, she joined Personalis as Senior Director of Genomics and Content where she worked towards improving bioinformatics for better analysis of the human genome. [4]

In 2016, she joined 10x Genomics as Senior Director of Applications. [7] Church has had over 35 publications in her career. [8]

Deanna continued her work with human genomes and in 2019, published "Multi-platform discovery of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes," along with other researchers. [9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Deanna Church (dmchurch) on about.me". about.me. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  2. 1 2 "NLM In Focus: Meet NCBI's Deanna Church, Genome Finisher". Infocus.nlm.nih.gov. Archived from the original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "precisionFDA". precision.fda.gov. Retrieved 2025-09-17.
  4. 1 2 "101 questions with a bioinformatician #3: Deanna Church". ACGT. 16 April 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Deanna Church Brings Reference Genome Expertise to Personalis". Bio-itworld.com. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "A star is born: the updated Human Reference Genome". Blogs.nature.com. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  7. ↑ "Renowned Reference Genome Expert Deanna Church Joins 10x Genomics". Business Wire. 2016-02-05. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "Publications Authored by Deanna Church". www.pubfacts.com. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
  9. ↑ Chaisson, Mark J. P.; Sanders, Ashley D.; Zhao, Xuefang; Malhotra, Ankit; Porubsky, David; Rausch, Tobias; Gardner, Eugene J.; Rodriguez, Oscar L.; Guo, Li; Collins, Ryan L.; Fan, Xian; Wen, Jia; Handsaker, Robert E.; Fairley, Susan; Kronenberg, Zev N. (2019-04-16). "Multi-platform discovery of haplotype-resolved structural variation in human genomes". Nature Communications. 10 (1): 1784. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-08148-z. ISSN   2041-1723. PMC   6467913 . PMID   30992455.
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