[Enviro-lunch] TODAY at Enviro-lunch: Dr. Yu Zeng: How do organisms interact with their environments? A biomechanics study

[Fernanda Santos]

​


* Dr. Yu Zeng*
*(Postdoc in Liu lab)*

*How do **organisms interact with their environments? A biomechanics study *


Dr. Zeng will give four 5-min talks, each highlights a biomechanics study
on how organisms interact with their environments and what specific
questions were addressed. These talks are formatted for a general audience.

1, flight with winglets
How did insects evolve flight capability? Using the stick insects as a
model system, we addressed the evolution between flightlessness and
flapping flight.

2, aerial righting without wings
During upside-down falls, small wingless insects use legs to interact with
airflow and achieve rapid yet stable aerial righting.

3, bacteria rolling
Bacteria aggregate and roll on surfaces to achieve long distance dispersal,
a novel locomotor mechanism currently under investigation at UC Merced.

4, spider maneuvering
Flat spiders strike prey with the fastest rotations in legged animals.


Where: SE2-224

When: TODAY (10/06, from 12-1:30PM)



We look forward to seeing you,


Organizers for 2016-17: Rebecca Abney and Fernanda Santos

Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ucmerced.edu/pipermail/enviro-lunch/attachments/20161006/5607a0ee/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: enviro_lunch.png
Type: image/png
Size: 20058 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.ucmerced.edu/pipermail/enviro-lunch/attachments/20161006/5607a0ee/attachment-0001.png>