Recent Lab News:
- Dr. Brooke Flammang was elected Chair-Elect for the SICB Division of Comparative Biomechanics
- Scientific American "60-second science" on our remora mechanoreceptor work
- some press about our recent remora mechanoreceptor findings published in Royal Society Open Science: phys.org
- Lab members gave 6 talks at the January 2020 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in Austin, TX
- 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)
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
