Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing?  Usually I am at home calling my parents or chatting with friends. Occasionally, I'll come back to lab to collect samples for experiments if I planned to measure effects every 8 hour to capture time-sensitive changes. I also come to the lab around this time if I want to perform an overnight incubation for 10-12 hours and proceed the experiment in the next day to maximize the sample reaction time. What would you be shocked to find yourself doing [...]

Your Content Goes Here What are you often doing at that hour? I'm usually trying not to think about tasks for the next day - materials to buy, what steps of the process need to happen next, and coordinating with colleagues - but as they come, I lay in bed and jot them down so that I can rest knowing that they are captured. I'm happy to have a clear game plan in the morning. Often, right before bed, my creative juices start to flow and I can envision color schemes I'd like to try or unique strategies [...]

Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? I’m usually at my desk or in the lab in the Discovery Building, focused on identifying and characterizing defective interfering particles (DIPs) in the human body. These DIPs have fascinating potential: they could be harnessed to develop novel antiviral therapeutics that suppress viral replication by outcompeting normal viruses, coevolve with normal virus to resist virus escape, and even transmit between hosts via aerosol. As a PhD candidate in biophysics working at the intersection of computational biology and virology, my [...]

Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? During this time, I am typically in my office or lab, engaged in research, analyzing data, or meeting with students and collaborators. What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? I'd be shocked to find myself taking a painting class or doing anything unrelated to research, teaching, or my usual structured routine! Morning is a time when I feel the most mentally sharp, so engaging in something completely outside my usual academic or professional activities [...]

Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing?  Sam Mulrooney introducing the speakers at Crossroads of Ideas Either WID's Illuminating Discovery Hub is wrapping up a Crossroads of Ideas program in the Discovery Building Forum or WID's Illuminating Discovery Hub is just finishing up another SoundWaves program at the Hamel Music Center. Crossroads of Ideas is a public lecture series held monthly during the academic year that addresses topics that matter to our community and are the subject of research at UW-Madison. SoundWaves combines scientific [...]

Your Content Goes Here What are you doing at this hour? I’m often editing the podcast for CaSP (Catalysts for Science Policy).  In a Perfect Policy, most recently the episode we released about state microbe, or working on a policy brief like one I wrote recently on water fluoridation in Wisconsin. I might also be working on the newsletter for CaSP. What are you rarely doing at this hour? Sleeping. I’m a night owl and if I’m not doing work like this, I’m gaming or doing some other fun activity. What do you like most about this time? [...]

Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing?  I'm at WID in the Saha Lab, performing experiments. What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? Writing What’s your favorite thing about this time of day? I can get things done. Least favorite? Meetings How can you tell if your work is going well? We have different indicators during our experiments that allow us to know if we are ready to move to next step. What tells you it’s not going as expected? What [...]

Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing?  I'll be up and about, likely at the desk in my office, in a meeting with my grad or undergrad researchers, or teaching my course (process dynamics and control -- for chemical engineering senior students). What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? I'd be surprised if I were not reading, not writing, not listening, not speaking, or not awake. I'd be soaking in the world of my co-workers, colleagues or students. Or I'd be [...]

Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? I'm answering email, going in to lab to check that our bacteria grew or how experiments are doing. What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? Anything too thought intensive What’s your favorite thing about this time of day? "Waking up the lab" going in with the light off (low lighting). Least favorite? The building feels empty. How can you tell if your work is going well? If the controls are looking like we expect [...]

Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? (Or, What is going on in your lab at this particular time?) PREPARING FOR MY weekly meeting for the Marie Christine Kohler Fellows at WID What’s your favorite thing about this time of day? The Kohler Fellows are a unique cohort of graduate students brought together to engage in an interdisciplinary exploration of art and science. Working with art and science students who possess skills, knowledge, and interest in sharing their work with the public is never dull. We [...]

Your Content Goes Here Where are you at this time and what are you most likely to be doing? Wrapping up experiments to go home, making overnight cultures of bacteria for experiments the next day What would you be shocked to find yourself doing at this time? Starting an experiment What’s your favorite thing about this time of day? I get to go home and see my loving partner How can you tell if your work is going well? I finish my experiments on time What tells you it’s not going as expected? What do you do when [...]