Madeline Isom is a Ph.D. candidate in the Chemistry Department at The University of Kansas. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from The University of Central Arkansas where she was a member of the Schedler Honors College. Her current research focuses on noninvasive biomarker exploration, mass spectrometry, and machine learning. She is a recipient of the Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship, the Thomas A. Milne Award, and the Drs. Walter and Roy Cross Memorial Award.

Dr. Heather Desaire has been a professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Kansas since 2002. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA. Her research interests span the fields of omics, mass spectrometry, and machine learning. Currently, she is interested in understanding the incorporation rate of generative AI into the scientific literature and improving noninvasive sampling methods for lipidomics studies. She was the recipient of the William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009) and the NSF Career Award (2007–2012).