Meet the Next Generation
NextGEN is a space created to promote and spotlight the work of Early Career Researchers (ECR) within the ASCEND team. One of the goals of the ASCEND Institute is to train the next generation of integrative biologists with the interdisciplinary skills, capacity, perspectives, and passion required for integrative research that enhances their traditional “disciplinary” training. NextGEN provides a space to create a sense of community among ECRs within our team, provide a platform where ECRs can get practical experience to write briefly about their work, describe their research to a broader audience, and enhance their online presence among the wider academic community.

NextGen: Olee Hoi Ying Lam
Olee Lam is a doctoral student at UW-Madison developing methods to detect the spread of potato diseases to improve crop yields. She is also developing an R package to facilitate the use and analysis of global plant traits in the TRY database.