Insect Biomechanics group @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni with Prof. Federle 🪰🪴🦗🐛The mechanics of plant-insect interactions and other cool insect phenomena.
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2022
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Insect Biomechanics Lab retweeted
Happy to share the discovery of a new insect-plant interaction from Borneo, where one ant-plant has evolved sharp hooked trichomes to pierce and kill lycaenid caterpillars. However, one specialist can survive and has a counter-defence!
doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.00…
Huge congratulations to @CNSAndrew_ for winning Best Poster at @UKPlantBiomech Day at the @slcuplants !!
@RobinsonSci @nakayama_naomi @CamZoology @LucyCavColl
Insect Biomechanics Lab retweeted
Congrats to the winners of the poster prize! Amazing work and presentation skills from Nathanael Tan, Charlotte Andrew, Gediz Kocaoglan and Zoe Nemec-Venza
Super excited to attend tomorrow! Good luck to Charlotte, Ritabrata and Walter who are all presenting! 🪴 🐜 – at Cambridge, England
’Twas the night before the inaugural UK Plant Biomechanics Day, and all through the lab not a creature was stirring...
Excited for new ideas, new collaborations & inspiration from invited speakers @MechEcoLab & @MCNDLab!
Launching the new @UKPlantBiomech community
#UKPlantBioMech
ALT Empty green poster boards waiting to be filled with posters of cool planty bio-mech research for tomorrow's UK Plant Biomechanics Day presenters
Huge congratulations to @ritabrata1907 for winning the best talk prize and to all the other prize winners at the @CamZoology Postgraduate Symposium last week! You had them hooked with your trichome facts! 🐛🌱🥇 Thank you all for a wonderful event!
Just 1 week left to apply!
Funded 3 year PhD/ Research Assistant position working on the functionality of insect cuticular lipids in our group at the University of Cambridge.
Apply here:
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44777/
Interested in a cool project combing physics and biology? A 3 year PhD/Research Assistant position on Biomechanics and multifunctionality of insect cuticular lipids is available in our lab at @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni funded by @HFSP .
Link below:
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44777/
2 weeks left to apply for a funded 3 year PhD/ Research Assistant position in our lab. Working on the functionality of cuticular lipids in insects @Cambridge_Uni @CamZoology !
Interested in a cool project combing physics and biology? A 3 year PhD/Research Assistant position on Biomechanics and multifunctionality of insect cuticular lipids is available in our lab at @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni funded by @HFSP .
Link below:
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44777/
Interested in a cool project combing physics and biology? A 3 year PhD/Research Assistant position on Biomechanics and multifunctionality of insect cuticular lipids is available in our lab at @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni funded by @HFSP .
Link below:
jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44777/
The project deals with the biomechanics and multifunctionality of insect cuticular lipids, including communication, waterproofing, foot adhesion and lubrication and will be in collaboration with the labs of Florian Menzel (Mainz/Germany) and Fumitoshi Kaneko (Osaka/Japan).
Deadline is on 12th February, 2024.
@CamZoology @EvoBiomech @MechEcoLab @SEBiology @SICB_ @cclemente4 @CWMillerLab @janhenningdirks @HFSP
Insect Biomechanics Lab retweeted
1/ 🤖 New paper hot off the press 🐜
Automated behavioural analysis using machine learning is great, but still needs lots of effort to curate training data. What if a computer could generate that data for you? Say hello to replicAnt nature.com/articles/s41467-0… #OpenSource
Insect Biomechanics Lab retweeted
Calling all UK-based plant mechanics & mechanobiology researchers 🍃 Please join us for the inaugural UK Plant Biomechanics Day on 18 April 2024 in Cambridge! Organised by @RobinsonSci @slcuplants & @nakayama_naomi @imperialcollege
➡️slcu.cam.ac.uk/uk-plant-biom…
#UKPlantBioMech
ALT UK Plant Biomechanics Day promotional image featuring image of segmented Marchantia gemma with graphic of AFM cantilever. Text: Bringing together the UK plant mechanics and mechanobiology community. 18 April 2024. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. #UKPlantBioMech Supported by Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University and Imperial College London
Congratulations to @jingyibu21 who graduated last week with her MPhil on bush cricket locomotion! 🦗 Of course the graduation grasshopper (or bush cricket, we aren’t actually sure) came out to celebrate! 🎉 – at Cambridge, England
Insect Biomechanics Lab retweeted
Join the annual #Orthoptera23 meeting @NHM_London on the latest #grasshopper & #cricket research, #conservation, recording & more
If you would like to present a talk/poster of your work, or bring along live specimens, please contact the SIG convenors 🔽
royensoc.co.uk/event/orthopt…
ALT Orthoptera SIG Meeting to take place Wednesday 8 November at Natural History Museum London. Registration open.
Insect Biomechanics Lab retweeted
The lab's 2024 international research experiences program is now open for applications: eng.vt.edu/academics/interna…
Insect Biomechanics Lab retweeted
How does a panda chew food? Pretty easy to imagine, right? But what about insects? How do they use their mandibles to bite and cut? Our latest paper (shorturl.at/hNT12) dived into the nitty gritty of insect mandible motion - a 🧵...#biomechanics #mandibles #joints #insects
Congratulations to @CNSAndrew_ for passing her first year PhD viva, especially on her birthday!!!!🪴🐜🎂 – at Cambridge, England
The graduation grasshopper came out for @ritabrata1907 ‘s MPhil graduation in a very rainy Cambridge today! Massive congratulations! 🥳🦗
Insect Biomechanics Lab retweeted
Had a great time presenting my work at 100th year @SEBiology #SEBConference in Edinburgh! It was an amazing experience. Met so many awesome people and had such a wonderful time!! – at Edinburgh, Scotland
She puts the Bu in Bush Cricket it’s……@jingyibu21! Congratulations on passing your MPhil viva this morning! Here she is showing off her award winning Bush Cricket costume in all its glory 🦗📖 – at South West, England
