Bioinspiration Lab

Fun Stuff!:

Some recent conference pictures

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Academic Links::

TCNJ Mathematics

TCNJ Biology

TCNJ School of Science

 

Undergraduate Research Links:

TCNJ MUSE Fellowship

Math REUs

Biology REUs

NSF GRFP Application

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Collaborator Links:

• Miller Lab (Math Physiology Lab at UNC)

• Strickland Lab (Mathematical Ecology at U. Tennessee Knoxville)

• Waldrop Lab (Integrative Biology lab at Chapman University)

• Prairie Lab (Marine Ecology at U. San Diego)

• Hamlet Lab (FSI at Bucknell)

• Santhanakrishnan Lab (Applied Fluids Lab at OK State)

 

Other Research Links:
 

• Laura Miller, Ph.D.: Advisor/collaborator who investigates changes in the fluid dynamic environments of organisms as they grow or shrink in size over evolutionary or developmental time.

• Matthew, Mizuhara, Ph.D.: Colleague/collaborator who studies firefly synchronization, cell motility, and neural networks!

• Christina Battista, Ph.D.: My sister who works in industry and uses mathematical modeling to help guide the design of new drugs.

• Christopher Strickland, Ph.D.: Collaborator who develops new methods for modeling local  and non-local spread in the context of invasive species and infectious disease.

• Lindsay Waldrop, Ph.D.: Collaborator  (now at Chapman University) who studies interactions between organisms and their fluid environments.

• Jennifer Prairie, Ph.D.:  Collaborator at University of San Diego working in Marine Science, studying the ecology of plankton

• Alexander Hoover, Ph.D.: Collaborator who studies fluid-structure interactions, namely locomotion, neuro-muscular modeling, and inverse problems in biology.

• Arvind Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.: Collaborator who studies locomotion and pumping and feeding functions in biological systems interacting with low-speed, unsteady fluid flows.

• Robert Booth: Analyst colleague who studies wave equations and PDE motivated by general relativity

• Namdi Brandon, Ph.D.: Collaborator who studies parallelization in TIME and the creation/analysis of efficient numerical algorithms for differential algebraic systems.

• Austin Baird, Ph.D.: Collaborator who studies bio-inspired fluid-structure interaction problems.

 

Research Affiliations:

Integrative Vascular Biology Group

McAllister Heart Institute at UNC

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Important Links:

MDA: Muscular Dystrophy Association – fighting muscle disease

Event Horizon Mag – online publication dedicated to delivering art and stories inspired by science with an aim to connect people with science in a more personal, deeper way.

NC Pug Rescue – adopt a pug; they need you.