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Glennis Logsdon, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, presents "The sequence, variation, and evolution of human centromeres".
Glennis Logsdon, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow in Evan Eichler’s laboratory at the University of Washington, where she studies the sequence, structure, and evolution of repetitive regions in the human genome. Glennis led the effort to generate the first complete sequence of a human autosome (chromosome 8), resolving five longstanding gaps spanning the centromere, segmental duplications, and telomeres. Additionally, she helped to develop new tools to resolve the remaining sequencing of the human genome as part of the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium. Glennis previously obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, where she studied the function and biology of human centromeres. In January 2024, Glennis will start her independent laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, where she will lead the effort to elucidate centromere variation among the human population and its role in health and disease.