Jennifer Schutz grew up on a 3,200 acre Colorado State University owned cow/calf and feedlot research facility. Jennifer received her Bachelors of Science, Master’s, and PhD from Colorado State University. Her focus was ruminant nutrition and her research was on immunology and feedlot management practices used to increase performance and carcass characteristics. After graduating, Jennifer worked as a post-doctoral research associate at Texas Tech University, focusing on feedlot research associated with evaluating the influence of probiotics on cattle health and efficiency; methods for feeding by-products to increase performance; and managing receiving calf health. Currently, she is Head of Technical Service at Novonesis. Her research is focused on novel direct-fed microbial impacts of animal health and performance.