Recent Lab News:
- Dr. Brooke Flammang was awarded the 2019 Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Steven Vogel Young Investigator Award
- Some press about our new bioinspired remora adhesive device: AAAS EurekaAlert
- Dr. Brooke Flammang was elected Secretary of the International Society for Vertebrate Morphology
- Audrey Biondi selected as the NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts Outstanding Graduate Student Award recipient for 2019
- Dr. Brooke Flammang selected as the NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts Rising Star Research Award recipient for 2019
- We received a National Science Foundation Understanding Rules of Life grant for "A Phylogenomically-Based Bioinspired Robotic Model Approach to Addressing the Evolution of Terrestrial Locomotion" (2019-2022)
- Our paper "Channeling vorticity: Modeling the filter-feeding mechanism in silver carp using µCT and 3D PIV" was selected for the 2018 Journal of Experimental Biology Outstanding Paper Prize shortlist
- Lab members gave 8 talk and poster presentations at the Society for Integrative and Comparative BIology meeting in Tampa, FL, January 2019
What we do in the Fluid Loco lab:
Functional morphology and biomechanics
Performance-driven evolution of novel morphologies
Three-dimensional fluid dynamics
Bioinspired robotics and technologies
