Luke Rippin

Position title: Animal Care Technician

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Luke joined the lab in Fall 2024 to takeover as our lead animal care technician. After finishing undegrad work at UW-Madison, Luke returned home to Chicago to work at the Shed Aquarium. We were very fortunate to lure him back to Madison. Not only does he do an immaculate job at keeping our animals happy and aquarium spotless. Luke also regularly helps with many aspects of our tapeworm infection projects and has recently started working on age variation in stickleback.