It's a tough world out there for young scientists. In 2015, Suzanne Ishaq was a freshly minted PhD in animal, nutrition, and food science, with significant experience in teaching and investigating the microbes present in the digestive tract of large ruminants. She found a gut microbiology post-doc at Montana State University and began working on papers with titles like “Zinc AA supplementation alters yearling ram rumen bacterial communities but zinc sulfate supplementation does not,” and “Pelleted-hay alfalfa feed increases sheep wether weight gain and rumen bacterial richness over loose-hay alfalfa feed."
Then the funding ran out. | 
