She received her bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of North Dakota and her doctorate degree in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from Rice University. After a year of post-doctoral training at Rice University, Magdalena joined the Clinical Molecular Genetics fellowship at the Medical Genetics Laboratories at Baylor College of Medicine. Upon completion in 2014, Magdalena stayed on at the Baylor Genetics Laboratories. Magdalena is board-certified in Clinical Molecular Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics.