Author Archives: Eric Tytell

Welcome to Elska Kazmarek, who just joined the lab as a postdoctoral researcher! Elska received the prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology to study the evolution of the swim bladder and buoyancy regulation in fishes.

Olivia and Eric published a giant book chapter on the kinematics and energetics of swimming in fishes, as part of the long-standing Fish Physiology book series, with a corresponding R package.

Giant danios can school without their lateral line, but they do not school in the dark. But they DO sense one another in the dark, just not enough to form a coherent school. Just published in Journal of Experimental Biology

Lampreys (mostly) regulate their swimming waveform when forces on their bodies change. This was a project that started in 2013 with undergrad researcher Lauren Oswald (now Lauren Cooper). It’s now out in the Journal of Experimental Biology!

Former grad student Jerry Mekdara was so thorough in testing different chemicals for ablating the lateral line that we decided to publish a paper documenting the differences. See https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac012

Cassandra Donatelli’s paper on vertebral morphology and Jerry Mekdara’s paper on tail beat synchronization in schooling fish are both out in the issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology devoted to the tails symposium!

Kelsey Lucas’s paper on the pressure field around swimming bluegill and trout is out at Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences!

Margot Schwalbe’s paper on muscle activity during acceleration in bluegill is out at Scientific Reports!

Tyler Wise’s senior thesis on the hydrodynamics of linear acceleration in bluegill is out in Journal of Experimental Biology!  http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2018/10/04/jeb.190892

The muscle paper is out in Integrative and Comparative Biology! Muscle stiffness and damping depend on length AND activation, so animals can tune their effective stiffness. Plus some cool work with harmonic transfer functions. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icy042