Happy Holidays 2020
Producer and Director – Our fabulous graduate student Isabelle Hinch.
Producer and Director – Our fabulous graduate student Isabelle Hinch.
Our lab has been featured on CTV News! The reportage covers the collaboration between researchers and clinicians in Windsor and how this teamwork is helping cancer patients in our community. Check the link below to watch the videos. Windsor-area researchers and doctors collaborate in search of a cure for cancer Tweet
The Porter Lab was a success at the WCRG2018 this weekend. Our lab marked presence with one of nine Rapid Fire Session presentations and had a total of 10 posters presentations from a total of 58 conference posters. One of our students received a Student Research Excellence Award for his poster presentation and a Porter Lab alumni also …
The Porter Lab new logo was designed by our talented Ph.D. student Martin K. Bakht. The logo depicts the main research areas of our lab. The P of Porter shows the following: Asymmetric Cell Division Speedy Cell cycle The L of Lab shows the following: DNA technology Zebrafish used by our Lab as a …
Dr. Lisa Porter was invited to participate in TEDx Talks in Windsor (TEDx Windsor), an event to stimulate conversation and connections, helping communities and organizations. One more time Dr. Porter made us proud! Here is the video of her brilliant talk. Please leave your comment below. Elizabeth Fidalgo, Ph.D Tweet
Happy New Year lab! The turn of each year provides us a chance to reflect on what we’ve accomplished and where we want to go in the next year. I hope you will feel like me when you see how far we’ve come and you will be excited by the promise that is on the …
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Out with the Old, In with the New! Biological aging or senescence is the steady decline of cellular function with age. There are a number of rationales that explain why senescence occurs, including changes in gene expression, or damage that is accumulated throughout the lifetime of a cell. Many questions surrounding how to overcome senescence …
Would you ever believe that a fish no bigger than your fingernail could provide information on the best form of therapy for cancer treatments? Well, it’s true! In the Porter lab, the zebrafish group is a part of the Breast Group with our focus being on using fish, specifically zebrafish, to answer questions about which …
Cancer is a complex disease, and the process towards the discovery of a cure is itself complex. It is a step by step process that builds upon previous discoveries and fitting together the pieces of the puzzle until we get a complete picture. We work at understanding cancer at the most basic level, at understanding …