Meeting Abstract 60-5 Sunday, Jan. 5 14:30 – 14:45 Using your head! Finite Element Analysis of head-first burrowing Pygopodids (Gekkota) GURGIS, GP*; DAZA, JD; BRENNAN, IG; HUTCHINSON , M; BAUER , AM; OLORI, JC; SUNY Oswego; Sam Houston State University; The Australian National University; South Australian Museum; Villanova University; SUNY Oswego ggurgis@oswego.edu Pygopodids are limb-reduced, miniaturized geckos […]
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Steering Behaviors of C elegans Locomotion in Heterogeneous Environments
Meeting Abstract 60-7 Sunday, Jan. 5 15:00 – 15:15 Steering Behaviors of C. elegans Locomotion in Heterogeneous Environments DIAZ, K*; WANG, T; CHONG, B; DING, JL; LU, H; SARTORETTI, G; CHOSET, H; GOLDMAN, DI; Georgia Tech; Carnegie Mellon; Georgia Tech; Georgia Tech; Georgia Tech; Carnegie Mellon; Carnegie Mellon; Georgia Tech kelimar.diaz@gatech.edu To successfully traverse dissipative environments, slithering […]
Robophysical Investigation of Root Nutation through Heterogeneous Environments
Meeting Abstract 60-2 Sunday, Jan. 5 13:45 – 14:00 Robophysical Investigation of Root Nutation through Heterogeneous Environments MURRAY-COOPER, M*; OZKAN-AYDIN, Y; AYDIN, E; NACLERIO, N; MCCASKEY, E N; HAWKES, E; GOLDMAN, D I; School of Physics, Georgia Tech; School of Physics, Georgia Tech; School of Physics, Georgia Tech; Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara; School of Physics, Georgia […]
Reconfigurable control modules enable rapid burrowing in a decapod crustacean
Meeting Abstract 60-1 Sunday, Jan. 5 13:30 – 13:45 Reconfigurable control modules enable rapid burrowing in a decapod crustacean MCINROE, BW*; BOLAS, T; KO, I; FULL, RJ; UC Berkeley; UC Berkeley; UC Berkeley; UC Berkeley bmcinroe@berkeley.edu Animals have innovated a multitude of strategies to locomote over and in natural substrates. To develop principles of adaptive locomotion in […]
Lateral bending and buckling aids earthworm locomotion in confined environments
Meeting Abstract 60-6 Sunday, Jan. 5 14:45 – 15:00 Lateral bending and buckling aids earthworm locomotion in confined environments CARRUTHERS FERRERO, A*; OZKAN AYDIN, Y; GOLDMAN, DI; Georgia Tech; Georgia Tech; Georgia Tech alexandra.carruthers@gatech.edu Earthworms locomote in confined spaces and underground via retrograde peristaltic gaits where a transient substrate anchor is formed by the contraction of longitudinal […]
Functional Recovery of Burrowing Behavior in Sea Lampreys After Spinal Cord Injury
Meeting Abstract 60-3 Sunday, Jan. 5 14:00 – 14:15 Functional Recovery of Burrowing Behavior in Sea Lampreys After Spinal Cord Injury KATZ, HR*; MCCARTHY, NA; FOUKE, KE; MORGAN, JR; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA; Carthage College, Kenosha, WI; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA hkatz@mbl.edu Following a complete spinal cord […]
Evolutionary Convergence and Constraints on the Skull Shape of Burrowing Wrasses
Meeting Abstract 60-4 Sunday, Jan. 5 14:15 – 14:30 Evolutionary Convergence and Constraints on the Skull Shape of Burrowing Wrasses EVANS, KM*; SPERSTAD, ZE; WESTNEAT, MW; Brown University; University of Minnesota; University of Chicago kory_evans@brown.edu https://koryevans.weebly.com/ The evolution of behavioral and ecological specialization can have marked effects of the tempo and mode of phenotypic evolution. Head‐first burrowing […]
A bioinspired compressible soft robot for studying terrestrial crawling
Meeting Abstract 60-8 Sunday, Jan. 5 15:15 – 15:30 A bioinspired compressible soft robot for studying terrestrial crawling SCIBELLI, AE*; TRIMMER, BA; Tufts University, Department of Biology, Medford, MA; Tufts University, Department of Biology, Medford, MA; Tufts University; Tufts University; Tufts University; Tufts University anthony.scibelli@tufts.edu Here we describe a bioinspired crawling soft robot that is capable of […]
Thermal Sensitivity of Early Life History Stages of Antarctic Invertebrates
Meeting Abstract 59-2 Sunday, Jan. 5 13:30 – 13:45 Thermal Sensitivity of Early Life History Stages of Antarctic Invertebrates TOH, MWA*; LOBERT, GT; MORAN, AL; University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; University of Hawai’i at Mānoa; University of Hawai’i at Mānoa tohmw@hawaii.edu A paradigm of Antarctic biology is that Southern Ocean ectotherms are highly stenothermal, owing to millions […]
Phylogenomic resolution of sea spider relationships via integration of phylogenetic data classes
Meeting Abstract 59-8 Sunday, Jan. 5 14:45 – 15:00 Phylogenomic resolution of sea spider relationships via integration of phylogenetic data classes SHARMA, PP*; ARANGO, CP; BALLESTEROS, JA; BRENNEIS, G; DILLY, GF; SETTON, EVW; WHEELER, WC; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Queensland Museum; University of Wisconsin-Madison; University of Greifswald; California State University-Channel Islands; University of Wisconsin-Madison; American Museum of Natural […]
