Jessica Jarett, Ph.D. is the Director of Research at AnimalBiome, where she coordinates industry partnerships and leads research investigating the effects of diet, probiotics, supplements, and other interventions on the microbiome of companion animals. She joined AnimalBiome in 2018, after earning a PhD in microbiology from the University of New Hampshire and conducting postdoctoral research at the DOE Joint Genome Institute at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.