Team

Meet the BioInfoExperts Team

BioInfoExperts LLC (BIE) was incorporated in 2012 by employees that have decades of experience in studying pathogen genetics and substantial peer-reviewed publications. FoxSeq LLC is BIE’s software holding company and was incorporated in 2020. Our goal: build collective networks of infection control practitioners, state contact tracers, hospital and industrial agents to defend communities against covert and high-risk outbreaks.

Susanna Lamers, M.S., is Chief Executive Officer of BioInfoExperts and FoxSeq, LLC. She has owned and managed genetic analysis consulting businesses since 1990 and established collaborative projects with research institutions across the United States. Susanna has a broad background in epidemiological studies, including HIV epidemiology, disease pathogenesis and immunology, and development of computational methods to identify predictors of disease.

Rebecca Rose, Ph.D., is Chief Technical Officer of BioInfoExperts and FoxSeq, LLC. Rebecca has a background in molecular anthropology, bioinformatics, and virology. She has extensive experience in developing pipelines, methods, and models to track the spread of viruses and bacteria, within individuals and communities. Rebecca leads the bioinformatics and software development of the FoxSeq platform. Rebecca is an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.

David J. Nolan , B.S., is Laboratory Director of BioInfoExperts, located at the University of Florida Sid Martin Bioincubator. David has an extensive background in experimental design and research, with a focus on viral and bacterial pathogen sequencing using both Sanger and multiple next-generation sequencing methodologies. He has optimized single genome amplification experiments and viral sequencing from low copy number

Christopher Huston, is a full-time software engineer and a graduate of the Louisiana Advanced Software Engineering Immersion Program at Operation Spark. Chris focuses on product aesthetics, and user authorization on the frontend of our novel FoxSeq software that is used for monitoring COVID-19 variants in near real-time.​ Chris is an AWS certified Cloud Practitioner.

Simon Rosenthal, B.S., is a full-time computer programmer, software developer, information scientist, and mathematician. Simon codes, develops, and tests BioInfoExperts’ cloud-based analytics, assists in graphical design, and is an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.