Bette is a Laboratory Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group. She’s has been Los Alamos for 30 years as one of the world’s true experts on virus evolution and vaccine design. My understanding is that Bette discovered the "Delta variant" of COVID...and people didn't believe her at first. More on that here: Tracking SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutations (lanl.gov)