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May 17, 2021

MENLO PARK, Calif. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq: PACB), a leading provider of high-quality, long-read sequencing platforms, announced the appointment of three new hires to its growing team. Dr. Catherine Ball joins the company as Senior Vice President of Research, Kathleen Lynch joins as Head of Global Government Affairs and Corporate Communications, and Michele Farmer joins as Chief Accounting Officer.

Dr. Ball is a product of the California education system having completed her PhD in Molecular Biology at UCLA and her Postdoctoral research at Berkeley prior to 17 years at Stanford. Most recently, she was the Chief Scientific Officer of AncestryDNA where over the course of nine years she built and led a team of population geneticists, statisticians, computer scientists and laboratory scientists to create the scientific roadmap, genotyping platform, and analytical approaches behind the AncestryDNA and AncestryHealth direct-to-consumer products and services.

“Cathy is a proven, high-impact executive and scientist with the personal mission to bring the benefits of genomics to people around the world,” shared Mark Van Oene, Chief Operations Officer at PacBio. “In building and leading this new function, Cathy will focus on expanding the team and directing investments into early research and technology development activities to broaden our toolkit and feed our product development pipeline so we can positively impact health care innovation.”

“It is an exciting time to join PacBio and I am honored to have the opportunity to join the talented teams as we make research and collaboration investments to further explore PacBio’s current products, open new long-read markets with complete applications and investigate additional technologies and approaches to build a multi-omic portfolio,” said Dr. Catherine Ball, Senior Vice President of Research at PacBio.

About Pacific Biosciences
Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) is empowering life scientists with highly accurate long-read sequencing. The company’s innovative instruments are based on Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing technology, which delivers a comprehensive view of genomes, transcriptomes, and epigenomes, enabling access to the full spectrum of genetic variation in any organism. Cited in thousands of peer-reviewed publications, PacBio® sequencing systems are in use by scientists around the world to drive discovery in human biomedical research, plant and animal sciences, and microbiology.