Dr. Szmatoła is a bioinformatician from the Center for Experimental and Innovative Medicine of the University of Agriculture in Kraków and the National Research Institute of Animal Production. He recently received a Fulbright Senior scholarship to work at UC Davis. He specializes in the analysis of data related to Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), mainly associated with animal genomics, transcriptomics or epigenetics. In particular, he is interested in the possibility of combining omics datasets, looking for relationships between them and holistically examining particular problems. His scientific interests include the search for polymorphic variants associated with genetic diseases in animals, hence his interest in the subject of juvenile idiopathic epilepsy in Arabian horses. In addition, he is fascinated by learning new programming languages, searching for better data analysis solutions or simply graphical presentation of the results thanks to the use of newer and better R package libraries.