Fish Molecular Ecology Group
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 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.
