Michael Porter
Imaging Specialist at Marine Biological Laboratory
Greater Dundee Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Porter is an Imaging Specialist with 13 years of experience applying advanced light microscopy to plant and microbial sciences at The James Hutton Institute and the University of Dundee. He combines hands-on imaging, image analysis and microscopy training—teaching on the Marine Biological Laboratory’s AQLM course—to support researchers across disciplines from soil and crop science to molecular microbiology. His work spans fluorescence live-cell imaging, super-resolution modalities and quantitative analysis, and he has contributed to community standards efforts such as MULTIMOT and the Cell Migration Standardization Organization. Comfortable bridging wet-lab sample prep and computational image workflows, he brings deep practical expertise in bioimaging and a track record of enabling reproducible, cross-platform microscopy data.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Microbiology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Molecular Microbiology at University of Dundee
Github Skills (16)
matlab7
image-analysis6
microscopy6
image6
python5
java5
server5
storage4
data-format4
database4
manipulation4
webapp3
django3
neuroimaging3
minecraft1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mporter-gre/mtools
Jun 2013 - Jun 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 299 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years 1 month
image-analysismatlabanalysis-toolsomero-serveromero
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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