Abizar Lakdawalla is an expert in Genomics and Genome Engineering technology with more than a decades experience in product development and product management at pioneering companies such as Illumina, Thermo Fisher, Ultima Genomics and a few more. He has been teaching a unique workshop on "Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing" for the last 10 years which is the only course available in the San Francisco Bay Area that provides an indepth view on Next Generation DNA sequencing and applications.