<p>Christy Oliver earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees in animal and range science at North Dakota State University. She was the 2007-2008 FASS Congressional Science Fellow. Since January 2009, she has taught at Crown College in Powell, Tennessee. In June, she presented an abstract titled "Nitrite accumulation in nitrate-supplemented cultures of two wildtype Selenomonas ruminantium strains isolated from different rumen populations" at the Rowett-INRA Gut Microbiology Conference in Aberdeen, Scotland.</p>