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Tom Daniel
Tom is the Joan and Richard Komen Endowed Chair of Biology. He
recieved
his BS and MS at the University of Wisconsin, a PhD at Duke and was the
Bantrell Postdoctoral Fellow in Engineering Sciences at Caltech until
1984 when he joined
the University of Washington and has been here ever since. He is
the proud recipient of the University of Washington 1989 Distinguished
Teaching Award and the 2001 Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award as well as a MacArthur fellowship.
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John Edwards
Following a distinguished career studying insect neurobiology,
development, and ecology (punctuated with numerous awards Guggenheim
award, a von Humbolt award and the Javitz Award) John is now Emeritus
Professor of Biology. He is also elected to the Alaska Sportsman
Hall of Fame.
Autobiography
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Zane Aldworth
Zane
recently completed his Ph.D. at Montanna State University in the Miller lab
where he worked on the sensory dynamics of cercal sound detection in crickets. He is
currently studying control and dynamics of hawkmoth flight with a focus on wing strain sensing.
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Simon Sponberg
Simon
recently completed his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in the Full lab
where he worked on the motor control of insect locomotion and on antennal sensing. He is
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Jessica Fox
is a graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior
Program. Jessica came to the UW from Cornell University where she worked on
the neurobiology of mechanosensory structures in the legs of beetles.
She is now forging forward on the neurobiology and biomechanics
of crane fly halteres, whopping big gyroscopes.
Jess' home page
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Armin Hinterwirth
is graduate student in the Department of Biology. He
came to the UW from Rockefeller University where he worked in the Hudspeth Lab.
Armin is focussing on both mechanosensory and visual sensory
information processing in Manduca sexta with an eye towards multimodal integration. He has built a flight simulator that only a moth could love.
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Andrew Mountcastle
is graduate student in the Department of
Biology. He came to the UW with a Bachelor's degree in physics at
Bowdoin College . Andrew is tackling the complex aerodynamics
associated with flapping flexing wings with an eye towards
understanding how dynamic bending waves may affect flight performance.
Andrew's home page
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David Williams
is graduate student in the Physiology and
Biophysics Program. He came to the UW with a Bachelor's degree in
physics from Reed College. He is focussing on molecular motors
and works with Mike Regnier and our lab on the development of 3-D models
of myosin-actin interaction.
Dave's home page |
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Nicole George
is graduate student in the Department of
Biology. She came to the UW with a Bachelor's degree in Biology
from UC Berkeley where she worked with Mimi Koehl in fluid mechanics.
She is focussing on the biomechanics of Manduca flight muscle -- and it's temperature dependence.
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Robin Harris
is graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior
Program. Robin came to the UW from Cornell University. With Jim Truman
as her primary advisor, Robin is examing the behavioral and circuit
correlates of motor neuron loss in Drosophila. She was embedded in
the lab for the year to learn some kinematics and biomechanics and now resides at Janelia Farm.
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Susan Loudon
is an undergraduate in the department of Biology.
Susan is working with Zane on direct electrical stimulation of
turning movements in freely flying hawkmoths.
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James Tse
is an undergraduate student in Biology working with Armin on
implantable microelectronics and the development of direct antennal
stimularion in moths, exploring the steering circuit associated with
antennal mechanoreception. |
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Cameron Myhrvold
is an undergraudate from Princeton who has been working with
Jessica on the mechanics and neurobiology of halteres. He
has a predilection for Python and code. |
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Christina Tull
is a Roosevelt High School student working with Andrew on the mechanics
of wing bending and their consequences to aerodynamic forces, with a
focus on how the properties of wings change with age. |
