Lisa Borsuk received her master of science at Iowa State University in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in 2007. After graduation she worked for a small startup biotech company which did sequencing and sequence analysis. She started at NIST in Aug. 2015 in the Applied Genetics Group working on sequence analysis of next generation sequencing (NGS) of short tandem repeats (STR). She has also worked on developing and migrating computer programs to analyze forensic genotyping and sequencing data.