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Our lab’s research encompasses the fields of toxicology, endocrinology, and ecology. Our focus is on occurrence and effects of stressors such as micro/nanoplastics, microfibers, pesticides and wildfire retardants, as well as changing climate, from land to sea.
- Links to July and September 2025 PNWC webinars: on fish, seastars and sharks!
- New National Sea Grant project mitigating microfibers from businesses!
- Link to new PNW Consortium webinar – Toxic Free Future, black plastic hazards
- NPR December 2024: microplastics research probes the types of dangers they may pose to our bodies
- New collaboration with the Action Science Initiative, led by Dr. Shanna Swan!
- Museum-archived myctophids reveal decadal trends in microplastic and microfiber ingestion
- NPR article on the global plastics treaty, April 2024
- Microplastics Senate subcommittee hearing, testimony Feb 2024
- Brander interview OPB Think Out Loud Feb 2024, multigenerational effects in fish
- Pacific Northwest Consortium on Plastic Pollution
Brander is an Associate Professor at Oregon State University in the College of Agricultural Sciences, in the Fisheries and Wildlife Dept. and Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station. She is also an adjunct member of the OSU Environmental and Molecular Toxicology Dept, co-lead of the Pacific Northwest Consortium on Plastics, and is affiliate faculty in the Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing.
Brander recruits Masters and Ph.D. students, technicians, undergraduate researchers, and occasionally post-doctoral scholars. She currently mentors and accepts graduate students in the following programs: Fisheries and Wildlife and Environmental and Molecular Toxicology.
Ecotox and Environmental Stress Lab 