Patience received their BS in Biology from the University of West Alabama. In 2019, Patience received a Master’s in Biology from the University of West Florida where they studied retinal development in the marine Pinfish. Following their Master’s, Patience worked as a Microbiology/Virology Lab Tech at the Environmental Protection Agency in Gulf Breeze, FL. They joined the FSU Program in Neuroscience as a doctoral student in Fall of 2020 and joined the Williams lab in Fall 2022. Some of Patience’s skills include many microbiology and molecular biology techniques, immunohistochemistry, and bioinformatics analysis of sequencing data.