Glennis Logsdon, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Dr. Logsdon is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, and her lab uses long-read sequencing technologies and innovative computational methods to investigate the sequence and structure of regions of the human genome that have remained unresolved for the past two decades. During her postdoc with Dr. Evan Eichler at the University of Washington, Dr. Logsdon led the effort to determine the first complete sequence of human chromosome 8, and she worked with members of the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium to resolve the first complete sequence of a human genome. Dr. Logsdon is deeply involved in several international consortia that strive to generate complete sequences of hundreds of human genomes and integrate them into the first human pangenome. She is also involved in efforts to generate complete reference genomes of nonhuman primates and hopes to use these to investigate how complex repeat regions in our genome evolved.