Symposium S5: Form, structure and function: How plants vs. animals solve physical problems

Plants and animals have unique solutions for mechanical problems, such as adhesion, dispersal, and responding to mechanical loads, amongst many more. Several of these solutions have been sources for bio-inspiration. This symposium brings together plant and animal biomechanics researchers who tackle similar problems in different systems under the unifying theme of structure-function relations with relevance to bio-inspiration.

Sponsors: SICB Divisions DCB, DIZ, DVM; AMS

    

Organizers

• Dr. Simon Poppinga; University of Freiburg
• Dr. Ulrike Müller, California State University Fresno

Speakers

S5-1 Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:15 Müller , UK*; Poppinga, S:

Introduction to the symposium

S5-2 Sunday, Jan. 5, 08:30 BAUER, U:

Functional Surfaces of Insect-trapping Pitcher Plants

S5-3 Sunday, Jan. 5, 09:00 STARK, A Y*; YANOVIAK, S P:

Adhesive Performance of Tropical Arboreal Ants on Canopy Substrates

S5-4 Sunday, Jan. 5, 09:30 O’DONNELL, MK*; DEBAN, SM:

The Effect of Water on Salamander Cling Performance at the Critical Roughness

S5-5 Sunday, Jan. 5, 10:30 DEBAN, SM*; HOLZMAN, R; MULLER, UK:

Suction feeding in small animals and carnivorous plants

S5-6 Sunday, Jan. 5, 11:00 WHITAKER, DL:

Nature’s weapons of mass reproduction: Ballistic dispersal of seeds and spores

S5-7 Sunday, Jan. 5, 11:30 CHO, MS*; NEUBAUER, P; FAHRENSON, C; RECHENBERG, I:

A Filament-like Structure for Flight?: The Ballooning Flight of Spiders

S5-9 Sunday, Jan. 5, 14:00 JAFFAR-BANDJEE, M; STEINMANN, T; KRIJNEN, G; CASAS, J*:

Efficiency of odor capture by multiscale pectinate insect antennae

S5-10 Sunday, Jan. 5, 14:30 POPPINGA, S*; SPECK, T:

Abstraction of Slow and Fast Plant Movement Principles for the Technical Transfer into Biomimetic Motile Structures

S5-11 Sunday, Jan. 5, 15:00 LENTINK, D*; CHIN, D.D. ; HIGHTOWER, B.J.; INGERSOLL, R.:

Design principles of Fluid Force and Moment Platforms for biological locomotion studies