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Zach Smith currently serves as a staff applications scientist at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, developing applications for next-generation sequencing (NGS) and other life science methods on Beckman’s Biomek liquid handing robots. Prior to this, Zach served for over eight years as a project scientist at the Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he contributed to several large genome sequencing projects, including the cladoceran microcrustacean Daphnia pulex, the jewel wasp Nasonia vitripennis, the lone-star tick Amblyomma americanum, and others. Zach completed a Bachelor’s of Science in Biology from Indiana University in 2002, followed by a Masters of Environmental Science from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs in 2012.