Ecology • Toxicology • Physiology • Molecular Biology

The Gardell Lab aims to characterize the impacts of environmental stressors (including contaminants, osmotic, temperature, etc.) on aquatic invertebrate animals. Using physiological and transcriptional approaches, our research integrates environmental stress responses across biological levels of organization for multiple species of interest.

Some of the species of interest in our lab. From left to right, top to bottom: orange morph of Botryllus schlosseri, Mytilus trossulus, and Daphnia magna, black morph of Botryllus schlosseri in field on mussel, Cipangopaludina chinensis, and orange morph of Botrylloides violaceus on mussel.