Pavitra Roychoudhury, MSc, PhD is an Acting Instructor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Washington and Associate in the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. She has a PhD In Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of Idaho. She leads sequencing efforts for SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens in the Virology Division. Her resarch interests include high-throughput data analysis methods for pathogen genomics, and mathematical models of host-pathogen interactions.