Dr Bonnen is an Associate Professor, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine where she leads her research program focusing on rare diseases and precision health, with a special interest in mitochondrial and other metabolic disorders. Her work is supported by a variety of funding agencies including longitudinal support from such prestigious institutions as the NIH/NINDS and NASA. From 2018 to 2021 she served as the Special Advisor for Omics at the NASA Human Research Program and Human Health & Performance Directorate and currently consults for the Canadian Space Agency, Human Research Program. Additionally, she is an active member of the American Society of Human Genetics, the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Mitochondrial Disease Genomic Sequence Data Resource Consortium among others.