The National Academy of Sciences announced the selection of 162 of the nation’s brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government to take part in the 2024 Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia. Frontiers symposia bring together early-career scientists who have already made recognized contributions to science in a variety of disciplines. These symposia provide a forum for Fellows to share ideas across disciplines and to build professional networks to help them further advance in their careers.
Bryn established her lab in the Department of Biology at UF in 2019. She is an authority on metabolic and ecological principles that govern marine microbial interactions. Her work has been foundational in establishing sulfur metabolites as central currencies used in algal-bacterial interactions that facilitate biogeochemical reactions in the ocean. Her contributions to deciphering microbial interactions have provided fundamental information for developing a predictive framework for marine ecosystem function in current and future ocean conditions.
Bryn attended the Frontiers symposium held November 19-21, 2024, in Beijing, China, covering a variety of interdisciplinary topics ranging from AI for scientific discovery to in situ structural cell biology to ocean carbon dioxide removal. Bryn presented work entitled “Microbial-chemical networks in ocean ecosystems” to showcase the latest research in her lab conducted by UF Biology graduate students Rebecca Key, Laurel Meke, and Lisa Coe, postdocs Niraj Aryal and Nicole Lynn-Bell, in addition to several collaborators. Research was supported by Simons Foundation, National Science Foundation, and University of Florida Research Opportunity Seed Fund.