Laura Porta

Laura Porta is a Senior Research Software Engineer at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, where Laura is a member of the NeuroInformatics Unit and works at the Margrie Lab analyzing 2-photon and 3-photon calcium imaging data from the mouse visual cortex. Prior to this, Laura was a PhD candidate at SISSA, conducting research on Rat Visual Cortex. Laura has also worked as a developer at Avanade and a junior developer at Howard Huges Medical Institute. Laura holds a Master's degree in Neuroscience from Università di Pisa and a Bachelor's degree in Biotechnology from Università degli Studi di Sassari.