Biography Sydney Bradley is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cellular and Molecular Biology program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research investigates how bacteria adapt to environmental and chemical stresses, aiming to enhance sustainable aviation fuel production. She uses experimental evolution and genomics to study microbial resilience for bioenergy applications, driven by a strong interest in how …
Biography Xinning He is a first-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests lie in Human-Computer Interaction and Robotics, especially in how design and human engagement can navigate the intertwined technical and societal constraints of social robots to foster socially-fluent human-robot coexistence. Outside of research, she spends …
Biography A Madison native, Kyra is a second-year PhD student in Chemical and Biological Engineering at UW studying plant-associated microbial communities for their application in agricultural systems. She is passionate about the intersection of environmental conservation and space exploration – the primary goal of her research is to bolster crop production in poor soils and …
Biography Mengmeng Luo is a third-year Ph.D. Candidate in Soil Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Her research explores how subsequent fires and post-fire translocation influence soil pyrogenic carbon stocks and properties across soil depths under different fire regimes in Wisconsin. Her work integrates soil biogeochemical analyses, laboratory and field-based heat flux measurements, and …