Principal Investigator
Alison M. Gardell, Ph.D.
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agardell@uw.edu
Alison Gardell joined the faculty at the University of Washington, Tacoma as an Assistant Professor of Ecotoxicology in September 2020. She serves both the Biomedical Sciences and Environmental Sciences B.S. degree programs. Alison is passionate about research mentorship and currently manages an active research program that engages undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds. She currently leads research projects involving collaborative efforts with both U.S. and international researchers. In her free time, she enjoys spending time on the water and in the forests of the Pacific Northwest!
Graduate Students
Celeste Valdivia, B.Sc.
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I graduated from the University of California, Davis (UCD) in 2020 with a bachelor of science in Animal Biology. At UCD, I worked in the Connon Lab for four years investigating the neurodevelopmental and behavioral effects of contaminant, pathogenic, thermal, and salinity stressors on native California fish species. In 2022, I dually joined the Gardell Lab at the University of Washington, Tacoma and the Roberts Lab housed in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) at the University of Washington, Seattle. As a graduate student I am now leading the the NSF funded project entitled Somatic cell adaptation towards immortalization in a marine tunicate. If you have any questions or would like to chat please feel free to email me!
Chris Mantegna, B.Sc.
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I am a second year graduate student in the Roberts Lab at the University of Washington – Seattle working in the Gardell lab on the Puget Sound Biomonitoring project. I graduated with my B.Sc. in Marine Biology in 2021 from UW, and am continuing on as a School of Aquatic and Fishery Science (SAFS) and NSF Graduate Fellow. My research uses -omics techniques to evaluate the relationship between environmental influences, aquatic toxins, and organism physiology in the Pacific Northwest with bivalves as the target organisms. When I’m not in the lab I am in the field as the Black in Marine Science lead for the Yellow Island Intertidal Monitoring Program, a program that invites historically marginalized students to learn about the marine ecosystem through hands-on data collection in a safe and inviting environment.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Christian Gombio
Trevor Rivers
Ly Vuthy
Thanh Trinh
Lab Alumni
Alexandria Rios (January 2021-June 2022)
Summer Turnberg (June 2021- June 2022)
Hashim Hashi (June 2021- June 2022)
Joy Deller (June 2021-June 2022)
Olivia Wing (NSF REU Participant from Whitman College, June-August 2022)
Jonathan Ohashi (March-December 2022)
Austin Millen (November 2022-February 2023)
Lindsay Overstreet (September 2022-March 2023)
Gina Jones (March 2022-June 2023)
Alexandrea Pascua (April-August 2023)
India Grace (June-September 2023)
My name is India Grace and I am in my senior year at the University of Washington Tacoma pursuing an undergraduate bachelors in Biomedical sciences. I currently work with Celeste Valdivia on the Somatic cell adaptation towards immortalization in a marine tunicate project. I also work on a different project with Dr. Anna Groat Carmona analyzing the Dengue virus genome structure. I have some anthropological research experience at Central Washington University working with Dr. Steven Hackenburger on faunal feature analysis as well as some previous marine invertebrate research on the ctenophore, Euplokamis dunlape with Dr. Leonid Moroz on Friday Harbor Laboratories. Outside the lab I enjoy swimming, martial arts, horse riding, and cuddling my cat Finlee.
