Naomi is a senior staff scientist in the DNA pipelines research and development team at the Sanger Institute. Thirteen years ago, her PhD included researching improvements to multiplex PCR – an integral method to many of the processes she has since been involved with at Sanger. Discovering this experience would be extremely useful in the midst of a pandemic is something she didn’t see coming.. Referenced Links: Josh Quick 2020. nCoV-2019 sequencing protocol. dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bbmuik6w COVID-19 ARTIC v3 Illumina library construction and sequencing protocol. dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bgxjjxkn Naomi’s Tweet https://twitter.com/SequencingPark/status/1263802155816947715?s=20