Dr. Ellen Greytak is the Director of Bioinformatics at Parabon NanoLabs, where she leads the development of novel genomic analysis technologies for forensic and medical applications.  She has spent more than ten years researching the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes in humans.  She leads Parabon’s Snapshot^® operational division, which performs genetic genealogy, phenotyping, and kinship analyses of forensic casework samples, which has led to move than 260 identifications. She developed a novel mixture deconvolution technique for SNP microarray genotyping data that has been used in dozens of cases. Her continued research on Snapshot uses innovative software tools for prediction of traits and relationships from DNA.  Additional DoD-funded projects include the development of software to determine the kinship between severely degraded DNA samples, with a goal of identifying fallen soldiers from past conflicts; the creation of kinship analysis and pedigree reconstruction software for the Fx Forensic Analysis Platform; and the prediction of antimicrobial resistance phenotypes from metagenomic samples.  Dr. Greytak holds a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.