Dr. Thaís Correia Costa graduated in Animal Science in 2015 and received her Ph.D. in Animal Science in 2022 from the Federal University of Viçosa–Brazil. Her research is focused on the understanding of maternal nutrition manipulation on the development and composition of the skeletal muscle of the offspring. During her career, she acquired different backgrounds from other institutions in the US such as University of Tennessee (2015-2016) and Washington State University (2020-2021). Currently, she is a postdoctoral fellow of the Roullier Innovation Award (CMI Timac Agro) at the Department of Animal Science at Federal University of Lavras, Brazil.