SICB Division of Comparative Biomechanics (DCB)

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Introduction

The SICB has created a new division for the study of comparative biomechanics. The new division will hold its organizational meeting at the 2007 SICB Annual Meeting in Phoenix. At this time, we will attempt to adopt a set of bylaws. Since we do not yet have an official membership, we will hold elections in the spring of 2007. New officers will assume office at the 2008 meeting. Until then, we accepted volunteers as interim officers. These include: Robert Full, chair; Miriam Ashley-Ross, secretary; Frank Fish, program officer; and Monica Daley, student/postdoc representative.



News & Announcements

North American Congress on Biomechanics NACOB 2008, August 5-9, 2008, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Click here for Second Call for Papers.


Biomechanics Course at Friday Harbor Laboratories

Dear Colleague,

I wish to draw your attention to a new course in Biomechanics, offered at Friday Harbor Laboratories this summer by Emily Carrington (U Washington), Mark Denny (Stanford University), and John Gosline (U British Columbia). The course runs for 5 weeks (June 9-July 12; 9 graduate level credits) and includes opportunities for independent student projects. Applications are due February 1, and late applications will be considered if space is available. More information is provided on the attached flyer (http://sicb.org/divisions/DCB/BiomexFHL2008.pdf); please pass it on to your students and colleagues. Thank you for your assistance.

Best wishes,

Emily Carrington


From the DCB Researchers Database

Miriam A. Ashley-Ross

Mechanistic Basis of Animal Behavior
My laboratory is interested in the mechanistic basis of animal behavior. A variety of animal species from diverse groups serve as models. Currently, my lab has two main research tracks. First, we are investigating the evolution of tetrapod (four-footed land animals: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians) locomotion by quantifying underwater locomotion using the limbs in salamanders. This may sound odd, but the fossil evidence indicates that the appearance of the tetrapod limb and foot pre-dated the move to land. Thus, one wants a model that approximates the posture of early tetrapods, and salamanders are our best available match. ur current results suggest that the basic terrestrial kinematic pattern of walking only requires minor modifications for use underwater. Second, we are examining the biomechanics of prey capture in tarantulas. These large, hairy, ground-dwelling spiders can capture small arthropods (such as crickets) in less than one-tenth of a second. Just how they detect and capture their prey is our current interest. My graduate students are working on such diverse projects as the function of the median fins during the escape response in fish, and the development of feeding biomechanics in a blind cave salamander. Techniques that we use are high-speed video, electromyography (recording patterns of muscle activity), sonomicrometry, and in vitro measures of muscle work and power output.


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Officers & Representatives


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Chair 01/2006-01/2011 Robert Full
Secretary 01/2006-01/2011 Miriam A. Ashley-Ross
Program Officer 01/2006-01/2010 Frank E. Fish
Student/Postdoc Rep. 2007-01/2010 Gabriel Rivera




DCB Memberlist

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Dominique Adriaens  Ghent University 
Peter Aerts  University of Antwerp 
Jerell Aguila  UNLV 
David E. Alexander  University of Kansas Department of EEB 
R. McNeill Alexander  University of Leeds 
Rebecca Allen  Univ of RI 
Douglas Leonard Altshuler  University of California Riverside 
Erik Anderson  Grove City College 
Philip Seth Anderson  Univ of Bristol Dept of Earth Sciences 
David Anderson   
Christopher Anderson  U South Florida 
Cesar Arenas-Mena  San Diego State 
Miriam A. Ashley-Ross  Wake Forest Univ 
Henry Astley  University of Cincinnati 
Kellar Autumn  Lewis Clark College, Biology Dept 
Manny Azizi  Brown University 
Jaume Baguna  Universidad de Barcelona Department de Genetica 
John G. Bailey  Mississippi State University 
Jesse Barber  Colorado State 
Ian Bartol  Old Dominion University 
Brian Lee Beatty  New York College of Osteopathic Medicine 
Jim Belanger  West Virginia University 
Jennie Lanett Beltran  The George Washington University 
Angela Berg  Harvard Univ 
Diego Bernal  U Mass Dartmouth 
Elena Bernick  WA State Univ 
John E. A. Bertram  Univ of Calgary 
Audrone Regina Biknevicius  Ohio University 
Wendy J. Binder  Loyola Marymount University 
Ruediger Birenheide   
Kristin Bishop  University of California Davis 
Jason M. Blank  University of California, Irvine 
Erin Blevins  Harvard University 
Richard W. Blob  Clemson University 
Greta Bolin   
Michael Boller  Stanford University 
Steven Borish  California State East Bay 
Elizabeth L. Brainerd  Brown Univ 
Kenneth Breuer  Brown University 
Federico Brown  University of Washington 
Marguerite A. Butler  University of Hawaii 
Sharon L Carlisle  University of Oklahoma 
Kristian Carlson  NYCOM 
Eugenio Carpizo-Ituarte  IIO/UABC Dept. of Biology 
Jennifer Carr  Northeastern Univ 
Emily Carrington  University of Washington 
Andrew Carroll   
Brad A. Chadwell  Wake Forest Univ 
Erica Chao   
Chris Clark  UC Berkeley 
Andrew Clark  UC Irvine 
CHRISTOPHER CLARK  UC BERKELEY 
David Charles Collar  Harvard University 
Stacey Combes  Harvard University 
Lisa Noelle Cooper  NEOUCOM 
Lynn Copes   
David J. Coughlin  Widener University Science Division 
Rebecca Morgan Creer   
Megan Cummins  Lafayette College 
David L L. Cundall  Lehigh University Department of Biological Sciences 
John O Dabiri  California Institute of Technology 
Monica A. Daley  Royal Veterinary College 
Brad Davidson  Univ of Ariz 
Gregory Keith Davis  Princeton University 
Megan Dawson  Brown University 
Mason Dean  University of California Irvine 
Jennifer Leigh Dearolf  Hendrix College 
Stephen M Deban  University of South Florida 
Paul C. Dechow  Baylor College of Dentistry Texas A & M Health Science Center 
Xinyan Deng   
Kenneth P. Dial  University of Montana 
Michael Dillon  UC Berkeley 
Michael R. Dohm  Chaminade University 
Seth Donoughe  Swarthmore College 
Nicole Doorly  Vassar College 
Cunming Duan  University of Michigan 
Daniel M. Dudek  University of British Columbia 
Robert Dudley  U of CA Berkeley 
Donald C. Dunbar  University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine 
Casey W Dunn  EEB Brown University 
Paul Richard Dunn   
Thomas P Eiting  Univ of Massachusetts Amherst 
David Ellerby  Wellesley College 
Olaf Ellers  Free Lance 
Charles P. Ellington  Cambridge University 
Glen Elliott  University of Alberta 
Virginia Engel  Vassar College 
Nora Raquel Espinoza  Erskine College 
Shelley Etnier  Butler Univeristy 
Dennis J Evangelista  UC Berkeley 
Teresa Feo  UC Berkeley 
Maria Jose Fernandez  UC Berkeley 
Lara Ferry-Graham  MLML 
Jonathan Fingerut  St Joseph's University 
Frank E. Fish  West Chester University Department of Biology 
Brooke Flammang  Harvard Univ. 
Jessica L Fox  University of Washington 
Austin W Francis  Armstrong Atlantic State University 
Adam Franssen  Roane State 
Anthony Friscia  UCLA 
Hiroko Fujita  Ehime University 
Robert Full  UC of California at Berkeley 
Brian Gaylord  Bodega Marine Lab 
Matthew S. Geddis  BMCC-City University of New York 
Molly Geiger  UW/ Roosevelt HS 
Nicole George  U of Washington 
Rebecca Z. German  Johns Hopkins Medical School 
Shannon Gerry  University of Rhode Island 
Alice C. Gibb  N Arizona Univ 
Nicholas J Gidmark  Brown University 
Paul M Gignac  FSU 
Cole Gilbert  Cole University 
Gary B. Gillis  Mount Holyoke College 
Leslie Gilmore  Northern Arizona U 
Daniel I Goldman  GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 
Malcolm S. Gordon  UCLA 
Nick Gravish  Lewis and Clark College 
Andres Gutierrez  Vassar College 
Alejandra Guzman  Texas A&M Univ 
Rachel Anne Hamilton   
Dong Han  SFU 
Wolf Hanke  Harvard University 
Jandy Hanna  Duke Univ Med Ctr 
James M Harper  University of Michigan 
Cally Harper  Brown University 
Tyson Hedrick  University of Carolina at Chapel Hill 
Ashley Heers  U of Montana 
Brian Helmuth  University of South Carolina 
Joanna Randyl Henry  ASU 
John W. Hermanson  Cornell University 
L Patricia Hernandez  George Washington University 
Raymond Hernandez   
Anthony Herrel  University of Antwerp 
Susan W. Herring  University of Washington Department of Orthodontics 
Tim Higham  Harvard University-Concord Field Station 
John G. Hildebrand  University of Arizona ARL Division of Neurobiology 
Ryan Isaac Hill  UC Berkeley 
Maranda Wood Holley  Univ of South Florida 
Casey Holliday  Marshall University 
Roi Holzman  UC Davis 
Dominique G. Homberger  Louisiana State University 
Thomas Honegger  University of Zurich 
Brooke Hopkins  Louisiana State Univ 
Mike Horn  Cal State Univ 
Angela Horner  Ohio University 
Jaquan Horton  Univ of California Irvine 
Nickolay Hristov  Boston University 
Shi-tong Tonia Hsieh  Harvard University 
David Hu  Courant Inst NYU 
Tatjana Hubel  Brown University 
Daniel Huber  U of Tampa 
Darrin Hulsey  University of Tennessee 
Stuart Humphries  Univ Sheffield UK 
John R. Hutchinson  Royal Veterinary College 
William Hylander  Duke University 
Jose Alejandro Iriarte-Diaz  Brown University 
Brandon Jackson  U of Montana 
Natalie Jeremijenko   
Houshuo Jiang  Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 
Amy S Johnson  Bowdoin College 
Laura Katherine Jordan  UCLA 
Peter A. Jumars  University of Maine Darling Marine Center 
Ardian Jusufi  University of California, Berkeley 
Gerhard W. Kalmus   
Emily Kane  Texas A&M University at Galveston 
Mutahammis Kareem  Univ of VI 
Kakani Katija  California Institute of Tech 
Diane A. Kelly  Amherst College 
Natalia Kennedy  UCLA 
Brett Kennedy   
Ryan Kerney  Dalhousie 
William M. Kier  University of North Carolina 
Brandon Kilbourne  Univ of Chicago 
Mimi A. R. Koehl  UC Berkeley 
David M. Koester  University of New England Department of Anatomy 
Nicolai Konow  Hofstra University 
Wyatt L. Korff  Caltech 
Keith E. Korsmeyer  Hawaii Pacific University 
Brian Kot  UCLA 
Paul Krueger  SMU 
Raghavendra Kukillaya  Princeton University 
Michael LaBarbera  University of Chicago Organismal Biology & Anatomy 
Simon Lailvaux  University of New South Wales 
Thomas C. Lakars  University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Oral Biology (M/C 690) 
Andrew R. Lammers  Clevland State Univ 
Brian Langerhans  Harvard University 
George V. Lauder  Harvard Univ 
Hans Laufer  U of Connecticut 
Pierre Le Pabic  ECU 
David V. Lee  UNLV 
Andrew Huaien Lee  Ohio University 
Karin Leiderman  University of Utah 
Pierre Lemelin  University of Alberta 
Kristi Lewton  Arizona State University 
Jeanette Lim  Harvard University 
Sarah London  Univ of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
John H. Long  Vassar College 
Catherine Loudon  University California Irvine 
Laura Macesic   
Brett Marc Macey  College of Charleston 
Katie Mach  Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University 
Craig Robert Magie  Univ of Hawaii 
Anabela Maia  University of Rhode Island 
Russell Paul Main  Cornell University 
Bruce L. Manion  Scholl College of Podiatric Medicine 
Kyle Mara  University of South Florida 
Jessamyn Sheehan Markley  Univ of Utah 
Christopher D. Marshall  Texas A&M University at Galveston 
Patrick Martone  Hopkins Marine Station 
Kristopher Maxson  Blackburn College 
Gianna McArthur  Vassar College 
John McConaugha  Old Dominion University 
Kathryn McDonald  Univ of Washington 
Craig Patrick McGowan  University of Texas at Austin 
Polly McGuigan  University of Bath 
Matthew J McHenry  U. C. Irvine 
Kristina S. Mead  Denison University 
Rachel Ann Merz  Swarthmore College 
Ron Meyers  Weber State University Department of Zoology 
Kevin M. Middleton  CSU San Bernadino 
Kirk Miller  Franklin & Marshall College 
Laura Miller  University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill 
Luke Paul Miller  Stanford University 
William K. Milsom  Uof British Columbia 
Brad R. Moon  University of Louisiana at Lafayette 
Carlos Moreno  Harvard University 
Tatsuo Motokawa  Tokyo Institute of Technology Basic Biology 
Andrew Mountcastle  University of Washington 
Samantha Mulvany   
Yonatan Munk  UC Berkeley 
James A. Murray  Cal State East Bay 
Bonnie Blossman Myer  University of North Texas 
Marcella J. Myers  College of Saint Catherine Department of Biology 
Sandra Nauwelaerts  MSU 
Scott Nichols  University of California 
Richard Nichols  GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 
Michael Nickel  Institut fuer Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie, FSU Jena 
Bryan Nowroozi  Brown University 
Albert Charles Nyack   
Michael O'Donnell  UC Santa Barbara 
Michelle Lynn Osborn  Louisiana State University 
Andrew Ott  Blackburn College 
Tomasz Owerkowicz  UC Irvine 
Dianna K. Padilla  Stony Brook University 
Erin Winters-Mist Paig-Tran   
Erin (Misty) Winters-Mist Paig-Tran  UC Irvine 
M Rockwell Parker  Oregon State Univ 
Sheila Patek  UC Berkeley 
Anne Peattie  Univ of California Berkeley 
Nancy Pelaez  Purdue University Bio Sci 
Chuck Pell  Duke University 
Santiago F. Perez  Stanford University 
Suzanne Peyer  UW Madison 
Tia Renee Pilikian   
Gianluca Polgar   
Marianne E Porter  UC Irvine 
Marney C. Pratt  Mt Holyoke College 
Megan Pruette  Duke University 
Rebecca A. Pyles  East Tennessee U 
Jason B Ramsay  Univ of Rhode Island 
Emily Jayne Rayfield  University of Bristol 
David Reid  Blackburn College 
Matthew Reidenbach  University of Virginia 
Shai Revzen  UC Berkeley 
Gal Ribak  University of South Dakota 
Aaron Nicholas Rice  Cornell University 
Christopher Richards  Harvard University 
Marc Daniel Rinehart   
Angela R Rivera  Clemson University 
Gabriel Rivera  Clemson University 
Thomas J. Roberts  Brown University 
Campbell Rolian  Harvard University 
Rob Root  Lafayette College 
Marcus Roper  Harvard University 
Ivo Ros   
Eduardo Rosa-Molinar  Univ Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras 
Christopher Rose  James Madison University 
Hannah Rosenblum  Vassar College 
Margaret A. Rubega  U of Connecticut 
Anthony P. Russell  University of Calgary 
William Ryerson  University of South Florida 
Hassan Sakhtah  Vassar College 
Sarah Laurie Sanderson  College of William and Mary 
Christopher Sanford  Hofstra University 
Alan H. Savitzky  Old Dominion University 
Jeffrey A. Scales  Univ of Hawaii 
Justin Schaefer  Brown University 
Justin Schaefer   
Gerhard Schlosser  University of Bremen FB 2 
Heiko Lars Schoenfuss  St Cloud State University Dept Biological Sciences 
Ann Marie Scholl   
Justin Seipel  UC-Berkeley 
Liza Shapiro  UT Austin 
Tyler Skorczewski  UC Davis 
Graham James Slater  UCLA 
Kevin Smith  George Fox Univ 
Jake Socha  Argonne Natnl Lab 
Stanley Sowy  UC Irvine 
Joseph C. Spagna  University of Illinois 
Andrew Spence  Royal Vet College 
Simon Sponberg  UC Berkeley 
Eric F Stakebake  Univ of Utah 
Emily Standen  Harvard University 
Tristan Stayton  Bucknell University 
Robert D. Stevenson  University of Massachusetts Boston 
Elise Stickles  Vassar College 
Stuart Shigeo Sumida  California State University 
Adam P. Summers  UC Irvine 
Diego Sustaita  U Conn 
Yuichiro Suzuki  Univ of Washington 
Billie J. Swalla  U of Washington 
Brook Swanson  Gonzaga Univ 
Sharon Swartz  Brown University 
Matt Szarko   
Jennifer Taylor  University of California Berkeley 
Joseph T. Thompson  Franklin & Marshall College 
Justin David Tickhill   
Andrea Tilden  Colby College 
Bret W. Tobalske  University of Portland 
Carole Tomlinson  Haskell Indian Nations University 
Barry Trimmer  Tufts University 
Jack Tseng  Natural History Museaum of Los Angeles County 
Frank J Tulenko   
Eric Tytell  University of Maryland 
Catherine R.C. Unabia  Hawaii Pacific University 
Herbert Underwood  NCSU 
Jim Usherwood  Royal Vet College 
Ted Uyeno  NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY 
Arie van der Meijden   
William Van Trump  UC Irvine 
Sam Van Wassenbergh   
Jason Vance  UNLV 
Chris Vinyard  NEOUCOM 
Steven Vogel  Duke University 
Alexandra Voloshinga  Univ of Michigan 
Michelangelo von Dassow   
Peter C. Wainwright  UC Davis 
Lindsay Waldrop  UC Berkeley 
Warren F. Walker  Oberlin College 
Jeffrey A. Walker  U Southern Maine 
Christine Wall  Duke University 
Andrea B. Ward  Adelphi University 
David A Weisblat  UC Berkeley 
Kenneth Collins Welch  UC Riverside 
Mark Westneat  Field Museum of Natural History Division of Zoology 
Jennifer L. White  East Stroudsburg University 
Lisa Whitenack  University of South Florida 
Alexis M Wiktorowicz Conroy  Royal Veterinary College, Univ of London, Structure and Motion Laboratory 
Cheryl Wilga  Uof Rhode Island 
Susan Williams  Ohio University 
Shane Windsor  University of Auckland 
Michal S Wojciechowski  Nicolas Copernicus University, Department of Animal Physiology 
Mariana Frederica Wolfner  Cornell University 
Sarah A. Woodin  Univ of SC 
William A Woods  Tufts University 
Angela Woolard   
Kathryn Wright  Clemson University 
Roshna Wunderlich  James Madison Univ 
Steve Yanoviak  Univ of Arkansas at Little Rock 
Edwin Yoo  Harvard University 
Bruce A. Young  Washburn University 
Nathan Young   
Jesse Wyatt Young  University of Texas at Austin 
Edward J. Zalisko  Blackburn College Department of Biology 
Angel Zeininger  UT Austin