Author Archives: Eric Tytell

Cassandra Donatelli’s paper on twisting motions in elongate fishes is published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.  You can find it here http://jeb.biologists.org/content/220/20/3632

The paper characterizing the properties of lampreys’ edge cells, which sense how their bodies move, is out!  http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-017-1196-2

We’re hosting the 2016 Northeast Regional SICB meeting on Nov 12.  See SICB DVM/DCB regional meeting for more details!

Graduate student Cassandra Donatelli has received a Wainwright Fellowship from the University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories.  She’ll be going to Friday Harbor this summer to continue her studies of twisting in elongate fishes.

Congratulations to postdoctoral researcher Nicole Danos, who has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of San Diego.  She’ll be starting in the fall!

The Tytell lab will be at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting in Portland, OR, in early January.  We’ve got 7 presentations!

Christina Hamlet, one of our collaborators at Tulane University, has a new paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology. She simulated a lamprey-like swimmer with different types of muscle nonlinearities, and found that the force-velocity relationship has a large effect on … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Jerry Mekdara, a graduate student in the lab.  He will have a fellowship with the Graduate Research Excellence at Tufts (GREAT) program this summer.

Congratulations to Cassandra Donatelli, a graduate student in the lab. She received the Stephen and Ruth Wainwright Endowed Fellowship to spend the summer at the Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington. She’ll be studying how fish bodies twist … Continue reading →

Anabela Maia’s study on how fish handle streetwise vortices is just out in the Journal of Experimental Biology.  Maia was a postdoctoral researcher in the lab, and is now at Eastern Illinois University.