Katarzyna (Kasia) Heller-Uszynska, PhD https://orcid.org/0009-0002-5536-8949 Current Organization: Diversity Arrays Technology Pty. Ltd. (DArT P/L), Canberra, Australia. Current position: Senior Research Scientist Other roles: Coordinator of Targeted Genotyping at DArT P/L Senior Research Scientist with over twenty years of combined academic and industry experience in molecular biology, genomics and data analysis. Received her MSc in 1993 in Biology with specialization in Genetics at University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, studied the impact of environmental pollution on plant genetics. The same year received a Certificate of Successfully Completed Course in Environmental Sciences from the University of Greenwich, London, UK. As the Visiting Associate in Research, at the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, USA she worked on plant telomeres and telomerase from 1994 to 1996. She continued the plant telomerase research for her PhD at the Institute of Plant Experimental Biology, University of Warsaw, Poland and CAMBIA (Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture), Canberra, Australia as the Visiting Academic from 2001 to 2004. Received her PhD in Biology with specialization in Plant Molecular Biology from University of Warsaw, Poland in 2004. The same year she joined DArT P/L as the Research Scientist to develop a microarray genotyping platform for sugarcane and was awarded the Best Performing Team Awa