Madeleine Lambert

Madeleine (she/her, 2022 Cohort) is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. Madeleine graduated from Wheaton College MA in 2022 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and a minor in Art History. When working on her degree, Madeleine participated in collegiate swimming. She finished her athletic career at NCAAs this previous March. Madeleine made All-American for her athletic performance at NCAAs, and made Academic All-American for her scholastic excellence. Madeleine worked in the Blair Lab at the University of Utah as a research assistant. The Blair Lab was working on studies of the flagellum of E. coli, specifically: export nano-machinery, regulatory mechanisms, and protein expression. For her work in the Blair Lab she was awarded the Wheaton Edge Fellowship. She also worked in the Microbial Ecology at Wheaton college under direction of mentor, Dr. Primrose Boynton. Her Independent Study Senior Capstone was focused on the symbiosis between filamentous fungi, and wild yeasts in the Wheaton Woods. During this project she was able to identify new species filamentous fungi, and was awarded the Wheaton Foundation Grant for her work. Following the Biohaz program, Madeleine hopes to pursue a doctoral degree, and specialize in infectious disease and epidemiology. Her dream is to one day work for the Center for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, or the World Health Organization.

Career/Academic Interests: Global Infectious Disease, Virology, Public Health, Epidemiology, Bacteriology, Mycology

Hobbies: painting, reading, hiking, cooking, swimming, running