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Dana Walsh is a Senior Microbiome Scientist at CosmosID, a leading company in microbial genomics and bioinformatics. With a PhD in Toxicology and more than five years of experience in microbiome research, she manages the bioinformatics team and assists clients with design, analysis, and interpretation of multiomics data. She has a strong background in both wet bench and computational research, and has applied novel analysis methods to derive meaning from microbial taxonomic, functional, and metabolomic data. In her previous role at Rebiotix, she supported the development of microbiome-based live biotherapeutic drugs for various diseases. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Mayo Clinic, where she investigated the role of the microbiome in cancers of the reproductive tract. She is passionate about exploring the microbiome dynamics and applications in the industrial sector, with a current emphasis on maternal and infant health.