Fish Molecular Ecology

This laboratory works to determine why fish in streams have the distributions they do. Our research includes field studies of fish movement, species composition and productivity; genetic studies of population structure; laboratory studies of tolerance limits to chemical, physical and biological factors; as well as mathematical modeling of population dynamics.

Department listing

Dr. William H. Eldridge, Assistant Research Scientist | Profile | Email

• Laura Borecki, Research Associate | Profile | Email

Instrumentation

• Fish quarantine area consisting of six 120 gallon circular rearing tanks on a water recirculation system filled with pathogen free well water.
• Five experimental water recirculation systems each with twenty-four 20 liter tanks and capacity for heating and cooling over 150 gallons of water at 8°F/hr.
• G-Storm thermocycler Molecular Devices SpectraMax M2 microplate reader.
• ETS Electrofishing backpack unit.
• Full duplex and half duplex Passive Integrated Transponder tag detection technology.

Laura K. Borecki

Research Associate

Education:

B.S. in Marine Science and French, Eckerd College, 2004
M.S. in Marine Biology, College of Charleston, 2006

Laura is the lab manager for the Fish Molecular Ecology Section. She is responsible for general laboratory operation and maintenance of equipment. She assists in maintenance of aquaria and care of live animals for use in experiments. Laura’s laboratory activities include spectrophotometric assays, DNA extraction, PCR, electrophoresis and preparation of samples for sequencing and genotyping. She also participates in field sampling.

Email