Aparna Natarajan

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ABOUT APARNA NATARAJAN

10+ years of Genomics Industry experience including developing ctDNA detection kits, developing long range DNA sequencing and designing customer solutions for genomics applications.• 5+ years Industry experience as an R&D Scientist developing library prep product development for Illumina platforms (4 publications, 1 pending patent and several conference publications)• 3+ years technical support experience - Built technical support from ground up for a startup clinical genomics company• Problem solver – troubleshot complex problems, detail oriented• Strong technical writing skills -(Grants, Publications, Protocols, SOP, Experimental design and customer communication)•Led the Library prep product evaluation project – surveyed the market, designed and performed experiments, analyzed results to identify best suited product for specific agricultural/diagnostic applications on Illumina platforms •Contributed to several Long-range DNA sequencing product development projects. Provided technical support for complicated long-range DNA sequencing questions•Solved and tracked customer sample prep and engineering problems. Worked with R&D and sales to create long term solutions for frequent customer issues.•Led research activities to develop “Lynch test”, a germline cancer variant detection tool. Specialties:Next generation sequencing, Illumnina, PGM and Ion torrent, Technical writing, Research, data analysis, bioinformatics, Diverse Molecular Biology techniques, Transcriptome analysis, Customer interaction, Imaging techniques, Protein Biochemistry – expression, purification