Skye completed a BS/MS in Biology at Brandeis University. She caught the infectious disease bug in Cape Town, South Africa, where she did a Fulbright Fellowship under Dr. Rob Warren at Stellenbosch University focused on Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis. She did her PhD in Dr. Eric Rubin’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health studying mechanisms of ribosome-based regulation that governs mycobacterial drug susceptibility. For her postdoctoral work, she worked in Dr. Gautam Dantas’ research group at Washington University in St. Louis, focusing on the microbial ecology of Clostridioides difficile infection. Outside of science, she dreams of competing on the survival show Alone.