Alyssa received her Associate of Arts Degree from Florida State College at Jacksonville in 2018 before moving to Gainesville to pursue her Bachelor’s Degree at UF. She joined the Prentice Lab in spring 2020 and performed research using MALDI mass spectrometry imaging. She graduated from UF with her degree in Chemistry in May 2022. She is now in the doctoral program in the Department of Chemistry at Purdue University.