Autumn Pickett is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University. Autumn earned her B.S. in Animal Science from Southern Arkansas University in 2018 and her M.S. in Animal Science with a focus in ruminant nutrition from the University of Arkansas in 2020. Autumn is a graduate research assistant in Dr. Reinaldo Cooke’s lab, with her dissertation research focusing on managerial and nutritional strategies to modulate the various microbiota of beef cattle to improve efficiency of beef operations. Autumn has published 3 papers as first-author, co-authored 5 papers, and 20 scientific abstracts.