Elle Hill graduated from the University of Chicago with a BSc in Microbiology and a minor in Molecular Engineering. She worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at UChicago Medicine for over three years, while concurrently obtaining her MSc in Medical Sciences. Striving to pursue research focused more on the gut and oral microbiome, she joined the Moyes lab and Systems Biology laboratory, focusing on the flux of antimicrobial resistance genes and how they change in the presence of disease, or with antibiotic usage.