Dr. Ashley J. Snider earned her BS in Marine Biology from the University of North Carolina Wilmington in 2001 and her Ph.D. from Washington State University in Pharmacology/Toxicology in 2006, examining the role of phospholipases and lysophosphatidic acid in ovarian cancer. She completed her post-doctoral training at the Medical University of South Carolina in the laboratory of Lina M. Obeid, studying the role of sphingolipid enzymes in colitis and colitis-associated cancer. She has held faculty positions at the Medical University of South Carolina and Stony Brook University. She joined the University of Arizona as an Associate Professor in Nutritional Sciences in 2019, and is now a Professor at the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Associate Director at the Center for Precision Nutrition and Wellness.