Toxicology Lab Specialist
cassie.gilham@briwildlife.org

Cassie participated in a part-time internship at BRI through the University of Southern Maine during the 2023-2024 academic year. During her time her, she worked in the toxicology lab, where she had the opportunity to contribute towards a variety of research projects through direct mercury analysis. Cassie was brought on full-time in summer 2024 to help expand the toxicology lab capabilities to accommodate the preparation and processing of biological samples for PFAS analysis.

Her main focus will be to ensure the continuous production of the mercury data studies in the toxicology lab at BRI. Additionally, she will assist in the efforts to expand BRI’s toxicology lab’s possibilities to study other important contaminants that are present in our environment, such as PFAS

• University of Southern Maine – B.S. Biologist; Biotechnology Concentration (2024)

• Toxicology
• PFAS environmental contamination
• Mercury (Hg) environmental contamination