Neuromechanist studying how animals move and process information in a complex, uncertain world. he/him.
Atlanta, GA
Joined November 2011
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🕯️💡Our new study illuminates the mystery of why insects swarm around lights! Turns out, it's not attraction, but disorientation - insects mistake artificial lights for the sky and spiral around them. @FIU @NatGeoExplorers @dragonflyneuro
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♨️The official advertisement for our department's faculty position in biophysics is out. Please repost to spread the word!
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I’m excited to share our paper on the evolution, dynamics, and robophysics of insect flight that just came out in @Nature: rdcu.be/dnJlh
This was a wonderful collaboration with the @ngravish lab and led by @Jeff_Gau, @braiello, @springsNwingsand @ethanswold (1/11)
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My latest for @newscientist is about a study that combined phylogeny, the physics of muscles as oscillators and some tiny robots to shed light on how some insects evolved a kind of flight where their wings outrun their brains newscientist.com/article/239…
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The SoBS @GTBiology is recruiting Quantitative Bioscientists (shorturl.at/fpyAJ) and Integrative Physiologists (shorturl.at/MPW03). Come join a top-10 public university, fastest-growing public university over the last decade, in vibrant ATL!
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Excited to have published my first PhD chapter! Oscillatory locomotion often requires deformation of materials that store and dissipate energy (i.e. tendons, apodemes, muscles). Most of the time, we think of these materials as exhibiting frequency-dependent behavior. (1/10)
We explored the origin and functions of blinking! Thrilled to be part of this great collaboration led by @braiello and @TomDoesScience and implemented in part by our awesome undergraduate living dynamical systems vertically integrated project team at GT. @VIPatGaTech @GTSciences
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Really impressed by the great student talks at the end of the QBio summer research school here @KITP_UCSB during #neuroloco2022! Great to see so much interest in combining good work on muscles with our increasing understanding of the neural basis of behavior.
