Professor Traci Porter

Paternal health plays a significant role in reproductive outcomes, but it is often overlooked in preconception research. As maternal health is frequently prioritized, emerging evidence...

Environmental contaminants like Personal Care Products and Pharmaceuticals (PCPPs), pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), wastewater treatments, and gestagens are all prominent throughout the environment in the...

At some point in their lifetimes, a majority of people will experience myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), presbyopia (age-related farsightedness), astigmatism, or a combination of these...

White Nose Syndrome (WNS), a disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has been negatively impacting North American bats and spreading rapidly since its...

Many bird species employ a nocturnal migration strategy, relying on the moon and stars for navigation. Over the past century, artificial light at night (ALAN)...

Coronary artery disease is the most common cardiac disease in the United States. When vessels supplying the heart become completely blocked, the heart tissue dies...

Autoimmune diseases interfere with the quality of life. The etiology of these diseases involves underlying mechanisms that are still uncertain. Although many studies have implicated...

This poster describes an ongoing internship experience with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.  The internship explores software and data analysis techniques used to...