MADELINE TOPF is a scientist and writer. She received her BA in Biology from Carleton College while captaining the varsity soccer team. As a research assistant in the Sonnenburg Lab at Stanford University, she fell in love with microbial evolution and bioinformatics.

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MADELINE is getting her PhD in microbiology in the Pepperell Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the president of her graduate worker union, the TAA.

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CONTACT: madelinetopf@gmail.com