Ahna Skop: Associate Professor of Genetics and Medical Genetics, University of Wisconsin–Madison UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON, JEFF MILLER
As a kid, Ahna Skop ruled the science fair. “Every year I was in at least the top three, and I know I won grand prize once or twice,” she says. Not that her experiments always yielded the predicted results. “One time I was trying to figure out whether mice would go in a particular direction based on color,” says Skop. “My dad and I built a maze with different-colored walls and added a couple mice.” But her subjects had plans of their own. “They ended up breeding—a lot,” she says. So Skop had to figure out what to do with the 150 mice that resulted. “My dad said he’d pay me a dollar for each mouse I could get rid of,” she laughs. But ...
