February 2019: paper on gust responses by hummingbirds published in Journal of Experimental Biology
January 2019: paper on impulsive samara dynamics published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface
January 2019: paper on hummingbird feeding and bill morphology published in Integrative Organismal Biology
December 2018: paper on vertical ascending flight in hummingbirds published in Journal of Experimental Biology
October 2018: Guanting Su from Beihang University joins the lab for one year of insect flight research; welcome!
September 2018: Xiao-lin Chen from the Institute of Zoology, Beijing, arrives for one year of research on insect flight; welcome!
August 2018: NSF awards 5-year grant with MVZ co-PI’s Rauri Bowie and Jim McGuire to study biomechanical and physiological convergence between sunbirds and hummingbirds
August 2018: paper on aerial behavior of aquatic mayfly larvae published in Arthropod Structure & Development
August 2018: Leah Lee joins the lab as a new Ph.D. student; welcome!
May 2018: paper on behavioral flight mimicry by SE Asian clearwing moths published in Biology Letters
October 2017: paper on hummingbird wing hyperallometry published in Nature Communications
October 2017: paper on mosquito takeoff mechanics published in Journal of Experimental Biology
October 2017: Xin Cheng from Beihang University joins the lab for one year of hummingbird research; welcome!
August 2017: Aleksey Maro joins the lab as a new Ph.D. student; welcome!
July 2017: paper on water strider locomotion on perturbed surfaces published in Journal of Experimental Biology
March 2017: congratulations to Ashley Smiley for receiving an NSF GRFP to study forward flight in hummingbirds!
January 2017: paper on autorotation of animal wings published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0870)
January 2017: Alejo Rico-Guevara arrives for three-year Miller Fellowship to research hummingbird biomechanics
December 2016: paper on aerial righting in wingless nymphal stick insects published in Interface Focus (doi: 10.1098/rsfs.2016.0075)
November 2016: paper on high-altitude flight performance published in Journal of Experimental Biology (doi: 10.1242/jeb.142216)
September 2016: paper on meniscus ascent by thrips published in Biology Letters (doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0279)
September 2016: paper on hummingbird flight performance published in Philosophical Transactions (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0387)
October 2015: paper on electrostatically charged hummingbirds published in PLOS ONE (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138003)
August 2015: paper on gliding spiders published in the Journal of the Royal Society
Interface (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0534)
August 2015: Antonio Martín-Alcántara of the University of Malaga arrives for three months of work on hummingbird flight
August 2015: paper on CiBER’s interdisciplinary laboratory and teaching course published in Integrative and Comparative Biology (doi: 10.1242/jeb.109553)
August 2015: Ashley Smiley and Erik Sathe join the lab as new Ph.D. students; welcome!
July 2015: paper on visual responses of gliding stick insects published in the Journal of Experimental Biology (doi: 10.1242/jeb.109553)
April 2015: KQED San Francisco covers hummingbird flight research in the lab:
http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2015/03/31/what-happens-when-you-put-a-hummingbird-in-a-wind-tunnel/