Research Resources Reporter
The Research Resources Reporter has broad readership among core and shared resource faculty, managers, and staff. Readers are interested in learning about new resources, added capabilities, and professional development and connection opportunities. Email Sarah Brodnick at skkorinek@wisc.edu to subscribe or submit ideas, updates, and content.
Research Resources Reporter Archives
January 2025: Data Science Research Bazaar, Course on Core Leadership and Management
September 2024: Stable Isotopes Conference, BINA, MWACD, Badger Connect
July 2024: RCRP3 Awards, Funding Opportunities, BINA
Event & Deadline Updates: 4/18/2024
March 2024: Equipment Loan Program, S10 Grants, Electrical Safety Event, Survey
November 2023: Research Bazaar, RCRP3, Chilled Water, DPA Training, New Directory Listings
Event & Deadline Updates: 9/18/2023
September 2023: Relaunch, RCRP3, VCRGE Retirement, BadgerConnect, Directory Updates
Research Core Shout-outs
Want to thank or recognize a core staff member who went above and beyond to support your research or the research of a core user? Email Sarah Brodnick (skkorinek@wisc.edu) with the individual’s name and a sentence or two about why they deserve a shout-out.
Recent Shout-outs
Paige Munns and Ashley Nelson (Center for Biomedical Swine Research & Innovation)
The Center for Biomedical Swine Research & Innovation would like to recognize its Research Specialists, Paige Munns and Ashley Nelson for outstanding work! Paige and Ashley have both gone above and beyond in their roles, taking initiatives on projects, increasing efficiency and fostering productive relationships with the researchers we serve. They have received commendations from several of our clients and we’re lucky to have them staffing our procedure team!
Kathryn Fox (UWCCC Flow Cytometry Laboratory)
Kathryn Fox, has been working in the UWCCC Flow Cytometry Laboratory since 2015 and is our Technical Manger. Kathryn spends a lot of time training researchers in Flow, Image, and Spectral Cytometry as well as in cell sorting. She earned her PhD in Cancer Biology in the Sugden Lab here at the Cancer Center in 2011, and worked as a technical applications scientist for Bruker Microscopy before joining the Flow Lab in 2015. Kathryn’s wealth of knowledge and experience has been critical to supporting many research projects utilizing Flow Lab technology. In addition to supporting research on campus, she also supports our core with her excellent organizational skills, for example, overseeing the many complicated steps necessary to installing our newest cell sorter, the BD FCSDiscover S8 with CellView(TM) Technology, now open for use. She is a joy to work with and always willing to help researchers with experimental design, data analysis, and especially loves trying new assays on our instruments. She is also involved in beta testing new instrumentation in our collaboration with ThermoFisher. Kathryn is dedicated to sharing her knowledge, teaching our Introduction to Flow Cytometry class, training new users on our various instruments, as well as teaching the Introduction to Antibody Staining lab and biosafety lecture at the Annual Course in Cytometry.
Sara Haney (Water Science and Engineering Laboratory)
While her tenure with the WSEL has been brief so far, Sara has had a decidedly positive impact. WSEL researchers often go out of their way to praise Sara’s efforts. Of note, Sara is exemplary at communicating technical details for all of our techniques and their related preparatory considerations to researchers who are just starting their careers and may not have a detailed understanding of the care and consideration necessary generate demonstrably high quality data. Sara is deeply involved with the refinement of our training protocols, and often picks up additional work in an effort to solve broader analytical questions. Sara’s focus on helping WSEL researchers achieve desirable outcomes each and every time they approach a shared resource is one of the reasons why working at the Core in WSEL is such a positive experience for so many people.