Dallas Soffa is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University. Dallas earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Animal Sciences from North Carolina State University in 2019 and Virginia Tech in 2022, respectively. Dallas is a research assistant in Dr. Rebecca Poole's lab, with her dissertation research focus on hormonal associations with reproductive microbiomes in cattle. Dallas has worked with beef and dairy cattle and swine, providing expanded knowledge on multiple livestock species. Dallas was recently elected as the 2023-2024 Graduate Student Director for the ASAS Southern Section. Dallas has published three papers as first-author and co-author in peer-reviewed journals.