Dr. Schroth is currently a Vice President and Distinguished Scientist at Illumina where he leads the Emerging Applications Group in Product Development. Gary obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California at Davis and has been working in the field of next-generation sequencing (NGS) for over 15 years as part of Illumina (and Solexa). In his research Gary uses NGS to study genomics, gene structure, expression and regulation and applies this to projects in the fields of cancer, immunology, microbiology and infectious disease. Over the course of his career Dr. Schroth has been an author on more than 100 peer reviewed research papers and holds 17 U.S. patents.