Ruby Geballe and Amanda Bruner
Amanda Bruner (right)

Amanda Bruner

Laboratory Technician

ambruner@u.washington.edu

  • B.S. Biology (2004)
    University of Washington

Research Interests | Publications


Research Interests

I graduated from the University of Washington in 2004 with a BS in Zoology. From 2004-2007 I worked as a research technician in the Peichel lab studying sex determination in the threespine stickleback. While working on sex chromosome evolution, I became interested in reproductive physiology, developmental genetics and the use of model organisms as eco-sentinels.

Stickleback larva
Stickleback larva, 7 dpf
Stickleback germ cells
Histological identification of germ cells
Currently, I am a MS student in the Young Lab at the University of Washington in the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science. While earning a MS I will use my molecular background in sex determination to learn more about processes of sex differentiation through studying toxicology. There is increasing evidence that our water sources are accumulating endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that may be the cause of the increasing incidence of reproductive dysgenesis in humans and wildlife. Because biological and molecular processes of reproduction are highly conserved between taxa, understanding reproductive abnormalities in fish will be important to preventing adverse effects on wildlife populations and human health. I will be using the threespine stickleback to understand how reprotoxic compounds can alter early events in gonad differentiation and ultimately affect adult fertility.

Professional Affiliations

  • Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
  • The Endocrine Society

Publications

  • Kohn AJ and Blahm AM. (2005) Anthropogenic effects on marine invertebrate diversity and abundance: Intertidal infauna along an environmental gradient at Esperence, Western Australia. The marine flora and fauna of Esperence, Western Australia, eds. FE Wells, DI Walker and DS Jones. Western Australian Museum, Perth.

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