Malia (Martin) Caputo, Ph.D., began a postdoctoral appointment at CDCB in May 2023 before transitioning to her current role as Associate Research Scientist. Malia received her bachelor’s degree in animal science with a minor in agronomy from the University of Minnesota-Crookston in 2018 and her doctorate degree in dairy science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in June of 2023. Her graduate research addressed two areas of dairy cattle feed efficiency: predictive modeling of feed intake and feed efficiency, and establishing post-absorptive nutrient metabolism as a source of variation in residual feed intake.