Adam Phillippy, Ph.D., ’02, senior investigator at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), will present the 2023 Grand Seminar lecture. Phillippy’s presentation, “Life’s Code: The 30-year Quest to Read the Human Genome,” will focus on the journey to understanding the entire human genome.

In 2022, Phillippy was named to TIME magazine’s list of “The 100 Most Influential People of 2022,” for his research related to human genome sequencing. In April 2022, his team of genome scientists announced that they had completed the final 200 million bases of the human genomic sequence, leading to their inclusion in the publication’s list.

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