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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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…
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Congrats to the winners of the poster prize! Amazing work and presentation skills from Nathanael Tan, Charlotte Andrew, Gediz Kocaoglan and Zoe Nemec-Venza
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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
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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
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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 🔽
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ALT Orthoptera SIG Meeting to take place Wednesday 8 November at Natural History Museum London. Registration open.
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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
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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
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Research blog out now on the @LucyCavColl website!
lucy.cam.ac.uk/blog/carnivor…
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That end of fieldwork feeling…sad to be leaving Brunei after 5 months of pitcher plant experiments out here.💪🏻 Good luck to the rest of the @InsectBiomech crew finishing up our fieldwork in the coming weeks! Brunei- I’ll be back!🇧🇳✈️🌱 – at Brunei
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Delighted to announce that my MPhil thesis has been approved!!! Huge thanks to @InsectBiomech @ErikaCPCastro @mel_rosina and everyone at @CamZoology for making this possible!! Special thanks to my college tutor @beth_tennyson @StEdmundsCam for her support during my MPhil!!
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The grand finale of the event was the prize announcements and the closing of the #StudentForum23
Talks: 🥇@ritabrata1907 🥈 Kate Graydon
Posters: 🥇 @zwitteriann 🥈 @BenSJHawthorne
ALT Prize announcements
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Fieldsite flora! 🌸1. A Pale reed orchid on a dewy morning 2. The National flower of Brunei- Dillenia with its fruits 3. A Bamboo orchid on the outskirts of the site 4. The flower of a young Cicada tree 🌼 – at Brunei
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Best insect finds in and around Nepenthes rafflesiana! 1. Giant grasshopper taking shelter 2. Striped lynx spider lying in wait upon a pitcher 3. Unidentified, partially digested and very gruesome spider retrieved from the pitcher fluid 4. Stick insect succumbed to the trap💔 – at Brunei
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I passed!!!!! Thank you very much @ErikaCPCastro @InsectBiomech
Best of luck to @ritabrata1907 for his MPhil viva this afternoon! 🐛 We’re sure you’ll hook the examiners with fascinating trichome facts 😉! 🌿
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Incredible first 2 weeks in Brunei kicking off the first pitcher plant field experiments of my PhD with the team from @MechEcoLab and attending the International Workshop for Biodiversity and Bioinspiration @UBDVTLab ! Here are some of the best bits so far! 🌿 – at Brunei
