Betty M Booker completed her undergraduate studies at Grambling State University (an HBCU) in 2003, earning a B.S. in Biology while completing three internships with the USDA, Thomas Jefferson University (Kimmel Cancer Center), and Johns Hopkins University (Bayview Medical Center). In 2010, Betty started her graduate studies in Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) (in Dr. Patrick Higgins Lab). Her dissertation work focused on DNA structure and topology during replication and analysis of topoisomerases and chromosome structure in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium using Lambda Red Recombineering.

Currently, Dr. Booker is a Senior Scientist in the New Technology Group (Research & Development) at Advanced Cell Diagnostics (ACD), an RNA in situ biotechnology company in Fremont, CA.