Ksenia Krasileva is an assistant professor in the department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley. She is a scientist interested in genomics and plant immunity. Her research involves comparative genomics, plant cell biology, and plant-microbe interactions. She received her PhD from Brian Staskawicz group at University of California, Berkeley where she studied the molecular mechanisms of plant-pathogen interactions. Her interest in bioinformatics started from wonderful classes taught at Berkeley by inspirational faculty members and students. Under the guidance of Kimmen Sjolander, she completed a designated emphasis in Genomics and Computational Biology as a part of her PhD. This motivated her to fully apply her computational skill during her postdoc.