Dr. Miga is an Assistant Professor in the Biomolecular Engineering Department at UCSC, and an Associate Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute. In 2019, she co-founded the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium, an open, community-based effort to generate the first complete assembly of a human genome. Dr. Miga directs the Reference Production Center for the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC), with the goal to broaden the human reference to represent hundreds of diverse genomes from around the world and serve as the foundation for more inclusive and equitable health care in the future. 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.