Kristina Bruhn, field and greenhouse technician at the High-Throughput Phenotyping Facility at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, enjoys maintaining plants and harvesting the seeds that help support the research being done! Within the RIPE project she provides labor, support, and maintains the greenhouse for the ongoing trials. Bruhn has earned a bachelor’s in agriculture education from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and is in the process of earning a master’s degree in crop science from Illinois.