Beth earned her Bachelor’s of Science with Honours in molecular genetics from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, in 2013. Her undergraduate research included the characterization of microbial communities from cattle rumen, and population genetics studies of polar bears and bighorn sheep in the Canadian Arctic. She is currently a PhD student in the Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology program at the University of Minnesota in the lab of Dr. William Harcombe. She studies how metabolic interactions between different species in bacterial communities modulates how bacteria respond and evolve resistance to, different types of antibiotics. She has received several awards for her research, including three undergraduate research grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), an NSERC Postgraduate Doctoral Fellowship in 2016, several travel awards, and the Colonial Dames of America Scholarship in 2017. In 2016, at the annual meeting for the American Society for Microbiology, she chaired a small group discussion on the lack of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) academic positions. She was asked to write a paper on this discussion, which was published in 2017 in FEMS Microbiology Letters. Beth has mentored undergraduates in the lab throughout her graduate education, and has served as a teaching assistant for an advanced molecular genetics course and a graduate student mentor for the University of Minnesota Enviro-Mentors program. In her spare time, she enjoys swimming, singing in a choir, watching horror movies, playing video games, and spoiling her senior cat Callie.