Meeting Abstract 21.3  Sunday, Jan. 4  Pitching, Deformation and Control in Insect Flight BERGOU, A.J.*; RISTROPH, L. G.; COHEN, I; WANG, Z.J.; Cornell University ajb78@cornell.edu The complex wing motion of a flying insect is due not only to muscular activation but also fluid, inertial, and elastic forces. Thus, it may be that not all aspects of the […]

Meeting Abstract 21.2  Sunday, Jan. 4  Dynamics and control of turning during saccades in fruitfly drosophila CHENG, Bo*; FRY, Steven; HUANG, Qingfeng; DICKSON, Will; DICKINSON, Michael; DENG, Xinyan; University of Delaware; ETH/University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Delaware; California Institute of Technology; California Institute of Technology; University of Delaware deng@udel.edu By analyzing the wing and body kinematics […]

Meeting Abstract 21.5  Sunday, Jan. 4  Aerodynamic effects of wing flexibility in flapping flight ZHAO, Liang*; HUANG, Qingfeng; DENG, Xinyan; SANE, Sanjay; University of Delaware; University of Delaware; University of Delaware; National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India deng@udel.edu Wings of insects are flexible structures. Although there has been much recent progress in […]

Meeting Abstract 20.3  Sunday, Jan. 4  Study of Neuromechanical Control of Rhythmic Behaviors by Floquet Analysis REVZEN, S*; GUCKENHEIMER, J.M.; FULL, R.J.; Univ. of California, Berkeley CA; Cornell Univ., Ithaca NY; Univ. of California, Berkeley CA shrevz@berkeley.edu The control of rhythmic behaviors like locomotion is challenging to study when compared with control of fixed-point behaviors such as […]

Meeting Abstract 20.5  Sunday, Jan. 4  Similar motor pattern generators produce flexible walking behavior in juvenile and adult crayfish RINEHART, MD*; BELANGER, JH; West Virginia University; West Virginia University mrinehar@mix.wvu.edu We have shown previously that juvenile and adult crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) use different stepping patterns when freely walking. These differences are primarily due to an increase in […]

Meeting Abstract 20.1  Sunday, Jan. 4  Function of the epaxial muscles during trotting SCHILLING, N.*; CARRIER, D.R.; Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena; University of Utah, Salt Lake City nadja.schilling@uni-jena.de In mammals, the epaxial muscles are believed to stabilize the trunk during walking and trotting because the timing of their activity is not appropriate to produce bending of the trunk. To […]

Meeting Abstract 20.4  Sunday, Jan. 4  Examining integration of new cells into neural circuits and the evolution of motor control. HALE, M. E. *; FREMONT, R. T.; Univ. Chicago; Albert Einstein College of Medicine mhale@uchicago.edu One of the fundamental questions in neuroscience is: How does the brain evolve? The brain and its neural circuits, populations of nerve […]

Meeting Abstract 20.2  Sunday, Jan. 4  Abdominal motor patterns in mammalian locomotion: hypaxial muscle function with and without epipubic bones REILLY, S.M.*; MCELROY, E.J.; WHITE, T.D.; Ohio University; College of Charleston; Buffalo State College reilly@ohio.edu Recently, we have shown in marsupials that 1) all of the hypaxial layers are involved in during ventilation and that each epipubic […]

Meeting Abstract 19.2  Sunday, Jan. 4  The Effects of Naris Occlusion on Cilia Development and Protein Expression FRANSSEN, RA*; COPPOLA, DM; Randolph-Macon College; Randolph-Macon College adamfranssen@rmc.edu In the olfactory system, much of what is known about the role of neural activity in development comes from studies using unilateral naris occlusion (UNO) as a method of sensory deprivation. […]

Meeting Abstract 19.1  Sunday, Jan. 4  Noradrenaline, Receiver Error and the Cocktail Party Effect LYNCH, Kathleen S.*; BALL, Gregory F.; Johns Hopkins University lynchks@jhu.edu In humans, the ability to attend to important signals while simultaneously rejecting intrusion from other sources is termed the ‘cocktail party effect’. This task is relevant to the study of animal communication because […]