Dr. Emilie C. Baker is Assistant Professor at West Texas A&M University, with a doctorate from Texas A&M University in December 2022. She published 4 peer-reviewed manuscripts on epigenetic alteration of bovine DNA in response to stress and has a fifth manuscript in review. She was an awarded teaching assistant in Animal Breeding. As a graduate student, she was the instructor of record for a section of Animal Breeding for a semester in 2022 and handled all aspects of the course for 40 students. Her teaching goals include the training of graduate students in animal genetics and education of undergraduates as future industry participants in animal breeding and genetics. Skills in genetics and bioinformatics and her livestock background (cattle and horses) position her to be a leader in beef cattle improvement research. Her research goals include investigation of the rumen microbiome of feedlot cattle and single cell gene expression at the bovine maternal-fetal placental interface.