Opsin Switching in Starry Flounder
Congratulations to Tom Iwanicki for your recent publication on starry flounder opsins! Your success is inspiring! Read his article here.
Lab Receives NSF Training Grant
Porter Lab receives National Science Foundation traveling grant to learn electrophysiology in crustacean eyes. Dr. Megan Porter is one of...
Porter Graduate Student Receives GSO Grant
PhD student, Marisa McDonald, receives the Graduate Student Organization Grant to study larval eye anatomy.
Porter Lab Undergraduate receives the 2017-2018 Hokama Award
Undergraduate, Jessica Chen, receives the 2017-2018 Hokama Award for her research in the Characterization of the Luciferin-Luciferase...
Two Lysiosquillina maculata larvae Joins Porter Lab
Porter Lab discovers two Lysiosquillina maculata larvae. They will be joining our family!
Porter Lab receives EPSCoR Training Fellowship
Dr. Megan Porter receives National Science Foundation funding to learn electrophysiological techniques on small crustacean larvae in Dr....
Crab Mania
The lab welcomes Sam Smither who is visiting for the next few months from the University of Bristol to study ghost crab vision!
Welcome Summer 2017 REU Students!
Welcome to Elizabeth Winnicki from the University of Hawai'i and Alexa Collins from Emmanuel college, who will be working in the lab this...
Wrangling the Shrimp
Out looking for stomatopods in the sandbar with little luck - mostly just finding mud shrimp
Porter Lab Undergraduates receive UROP Funding
Undergraduates Jessica Chen (middle), Erica Shin (left), and Lauren Ho (right) have received Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program...