Godstime Taiwo is a Ph.D. student of Animal and Food Science at West Virginia University. He received his M.Sc. degrees in Animal Nutrition at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and his B.sc. degree in Animal Nutrition and Biotechnology from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Taiwo's Ph.D. research is focused on the physiological basis of feed efficiency and how nutritional interventions impact the gastrointestinal microbiome, metabolome, and immune competence of ruminants to improve the efficiency of ruminant production systems. Godstime has published 12 research publications and 15 research abstracts as an author or co-author.