Dr. Veena Hedatale, has a PhD in Plant Genetics from The Radboud University, Netherlands, focused on meiosis and recombination. Her prior academic experience at Cornell University was on genetic mapping and gene transformation in rice. She has worked with Monsanto and contributed to data mining, database development, as well as gene/promoter/pathway discovery for traits related to yield and stress in crop species. At Strand, Veena has worked on Pharmacogenomic analysis of targets and Gene family analysis projects. Currently, she is part of the Strand NGS Application Science team and is involved in the analysis of next generation sequencing data.