University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Current

Vazquez Chavez, Luis

Projects Luis completed a project compiling a food list for L’Hoest’s monkeys at Bwindi National Park, Uganda. In Summer 2026, he joined our partner NGO NVT as a summer intern and piloted a primate fecal spore identification protocol in collaboration with mycologist and NVBP collaborator Colin Haley.

Whitson, Kyra

Kyra contributes to data entry for the Nature’s Valley Baboon Project and in 2025-2026 participated in a weekly NVBP journal club with other UW-Madison undergraduates and Dr. Bryer. To explore her interest in primate microbiome and nutrition, she presented a poster at the UW-Madison Undergraduate Symposium in 2026 reviewing fiber variation in the human diet.