Dr. Niharika Sharma is a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at the NSW Department of Primary Industries, where she seeks to build the bioinformatics capacity across the organization to ensure research remains at the cutting edge. She has over 14 years of experience in the field of bioinformatics (particularly in omics data analysis for crop improvement and plant breeding). Her work at DPI clearly focuses on providing bioinformatics leadership and service around plant genomics and high-throughput omics approaches for plant breeding. She applies high-throughput sequencing technologies, genomic methods and bioinformatic resources to disentangle the genetic basis of complex agricultural traits in crop plants. Additionally, her work objectives involve identifying leads for new genetic gains for plant breeding programs and developing stress-tolerant crop varieties of agricultural importance and a high yield.