Crustacean & Molluscan Ecology Lab (C.A.M.E.L.)
The C.A.M.E.L. believes that a diverse and inclusive laboratory with an active involvement from all of our members, along with collaboration with other agencies, stakeholders, researchers, and citizens, is the most effective way to pursue our higher scientific goals in the aquatic sciences. Our lab members reach their greatest potential in an equitable, supportive, and exploratory environment, where the greater objectives of our research program, along with the individual interests and goals of each lab member can be pursued to their fullest.
News & Lab Research

International interns study novel growth systems at Auburn
It’s become a bit of a tradition. Each summer, some of the best and brightest students at EARTH University in Costa Rica travel to Auburn to study and conduct research with the Auburn Aquaponics Project at the E.W. Shell Fisheries Center. In 2022, those students were...

Grant to allow researchers to help Southern blueberry growers in states like Alabama
A nearly half-a-million-dollar grant will allow Auburn University professors and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station researchers to help blueberry growers in states like Alabama where growing the fruit has its challenges. Funded by a $497,827 grant from the U.S....

Ru part of national team to receive $5.2 million for specialty crop breeding research
Blueberry breeding and research at Auburn University received new support in the form of a $5.2 million award from the USDA Specialty Crops Research Initiative Program. Sushan Ru, an assistant professor and blueberry breeder in the Department of Horticulture, was part...