Oral History Collection

Deanna Church

May 3, 2019 - Deanna Church, Ph.D., is the Senior Director for Mammalian Applications at Inscripta, Inc. She was previously the Senior Director of Applications at 10X Genomics, and the Senior Director of Genomics and Content at Personalis, Inc. In this oral history, Deanna recounts her time studying genomics in John Wasmuth’s lab at UC Irvine and her time as a staff scientist for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) from 2009 to 2013. At NCBI she coordinated the mouse genome resources and headed NCBI’s team in the Genome Reference Consortium, an international group focusing on refining data on the human genome.