Over the last four years, Clotilde Teiling has served as a marketing manager specializing in microbiology at the Illumina headquarters in San Diego, California. She began her career as a research scientist for Affymetrix, with a degree in biology from the University of Denver, and spent many years in product development. Additionally, in the last seven years, Clotilde has been in marketing roles where she developed a special interest and focus on microbiomes and metagenomics.