| Deanna Church | |
| Citizenship: | United States |
| Fields: | Bioinformatics |
| Workplaces: | 10x Genomics National Center for Biotechnology Information |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, Irvine |
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| Doctoral Advisor: | John J. Wasmuth |
| Known For: | Genomics |
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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]
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. 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.
Church worked for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) from 1999 until 2013.[3] 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.[4]
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.[5]
In 2016, she joined 10x Genomics as Senior Director of Applications.[6] Church has had over 35 publications in her career.[7]