Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Faculty
Ruger Porter
Associate Professor of Instruction
Athens Campus
Biomedical Sciences
Education
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (PhD), Ohio University, 2015
- Biological Sciences (BS), Indiana University South Bend, 2006
Areas of Expertise
- Human anatomy and embryology
- Archosaur cephalic vascular anatomy
- Diapsid physiological thermoregulation
Biography
My research seeks to answer questions about dinosaur cephalic vascular anatomy and thermoregulation by comparing the anatomy of dinosaur relatives to evidence from dinosaur fossils. I’ve shown that the heat loads dinosaurs faced is reflected in the size of their cephalic blood vessels because they were used in different thermoregulatory strategies.