March 2022: paper published in Royal Society Open Science on ethanol ingestion by free-ranging spider monkeys
January 2022: paper published in Ibis on osteological correlates of migratory behavior in juncos; paper on ungulate salt licks published in Journal of Biogeography
July 2021: review articles published on human evolution and dietary ethanol (Nutrients) and genetic underpinnings to alcoholism (Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research)
January 2021: paper on the evolutionary origins of sinodonty published in Dental Anthropology
October 2020: canopy parkour by juvenile stick insects analyzed in Journal of Experimental Biology
August 2020: paper on waterfall transit by hummingbirds and insects published in Royal Society Open Science
July 2020: paper on dragonfly flight performance published in Journal of Experimental Biology
May 2020: paper on phasmid wing evolution published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
January 2020: chapter on natural biology of dietary ethanol published in Alcohol and Humans: A Long and Social Affair (Oxford University Press)
November 2019: paper on limits to flight performance in Eurasian tree sparrows published in PeerJ
April 2019: chapter on bird feeding mechanics published in Feeding in Vertebrates (Springer Verlag)
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