Insect Biomechanics Lab

Insect Biomechanics group @CamZoology @Cambridge_Uni with Prof. Federle 🪰🪴🦗🐛The mechanics of plant-insect interactions and other cool insect phenomena.

[Ritabrata Chowdhury @ritabrata1907]

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!

https://t.co/8OQJuxUOUt

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

Huge congratulations to @CNSAndrew_ for winning Best Poster at @UKPlantBiomech Day at the @slcuplants !!
@RobinsonSci @nakayama_naomi @CamZoology @LucyCavColl

[UK Plant Biomech @UKPlantBiomech]

Congrats to the winners of the poster prize! Amazing work and presentation skills from Nathanael Tan, Charlotte Andrew, Gediz Kocaoglan and Zoe Nemec-Venza

[UK Plant Biomech @UKPlantBiomech]

Congrats to the winners of the poster prize! Amazing work and presentation skills from Nathanael Tan, Charlotte Andrew, Gediz Kocaoglan and Zoe Nemec-Venza

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

Super excited to attend tomorrow! Good luck to Charlotte, Ritabrata and Walter who are all presenting! 🪴 🐜

[Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants]

’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

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

@Beverley_CUBG @plantsci @CUBotanicGarden Congratulations Beverley! Great news!

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

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!

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

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:
https://t.co/Kaqn2R5lHe

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

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:
https://t.co/8rvCtQEpdF

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

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 !

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

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:
https://t.co/8rvCtQEpdF

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

Deadline is on 12th February, 2024.
@CamZoology @EvoBiomech @MechEcoLab @SEBiology @SICB_ @cclemente4 @CWMillerLab @janhenningdirks @HFSP

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

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:
https://t.co/8rvCtQEpdF

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

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).

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

@MechEcoLab @ScienceMagazine @Chomicki_G @PlantsRChemists @gustavoburin @DrBethMortimer Congratulations Ulrike and everyone involved!! Looks like an awesome study!

[Evolutionary Biomechanics Laboratory @EvoBiomech]

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 https://t.co/LtCipnE59E #OpenSource

[Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU) @slcuplants]

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
➡️https://t.co/THUaAR33ht
#UKPlantBioMech

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

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! 🎉

[Royal Entomological Society @RoyEntSoc]

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 🔽

https://t.co/CWP8N9yLHN

[TheBatBotLab🇺🇸 @TheBatBotLab]

The lab's 2024 international research experiences program is now open for applications: https://t.co/5KLt0Asw9F

[Victor Kang @Hexamour]

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 (https://t.co/UCA0BhJ7WT) dived into the nitty gritty of insect mandible motion - a 🧵...#biomechanics #mandibles #joints #insects

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

Congratulations to @CNSAndrew_ for passing her first year PhD viva, especially on her birthday!!!!🪴🐜🎂

[Insect Biomechanics Lab @InsectBiomech]

The graduation grasshopper came out for @ritabrata1907 ‘s MPhil graduation in a very rainy Cambridge today! Massive congratulations! 🥳🦗