Cofactor Genomics

Matt Hickenbotham, COO

Cofactor considers it both an honor and privilege to have Matt Hickenbotham as our COO and leader of Cofactor’s sequencing operations. Matt brings 10 years of technology development experience in the field of DNA sequencing to Cofactor. His expertise encompasses ultra high throughput capillary sequencing as well as in-depth, first hand experience with all three of the currently available Next-Gen sequencing platforms (454, Solexa/Illumina, and the AB SOLiD). His cross-platform experience and complex problem solving skills enable him to design innovative new approaches for his team. Mr. Hickenbotham has gained the reputation of consistently generating high yields and high quality data from a variety of traditional and Next-Gen protocols. Mr. Hickenbotham continues his long history.

Dr. Jarret Glasscock, CTO

Jarret Glasscock holds a PhD in Genetics from Washington University in St. Louis, completed under Warren Gish–a forefather of computational biology and an author of BLAST. His interests and skills in computational biology and bioinformatics are well-complemented by his background in genetics. Jarret has spent the last three years involved in early testing and characterization of many of the Next-Gen platforms. Before this focus on Next-Gen, he had led a team of computational biologists at the Genome Center to build complex tools for large sequencing projects. Dr. Glasscock has recently transitioned out of his roles as Research Faculty in the Department of Genetics at Washington University and as part of the Washington University Genome Center Technology Development group to join Cofactor.