Brittney G. Borowiec is a postdoctoral fellow at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she studies how lamprey-specific pesticides damage fish mitochondria. During her PhD at McMaster University, she studied how killifish cope with periods of low oxygen. Outside the lab, she’s a science writer with work appearing in Nature, PBS Eons, The Conversation, the Canadian Science Publishing Blog, Massive Science, and elsewhere.