Looking for a graduate program? Trying to figure out how some weird critter does what it does? This list is by no means exhaustive, but it does give an idea of the breadth of topics covered by researchers in the field of comparative biomechanics.

If I am missing your lab or you don't want to be on the list please drop me an email or submit a link at the bottom of the page.

Biomechanics/Functional Morphology Labs

Vertebrates

Miriam Ashley-Ross

functional morphology, biomechanics

Kellar Autumn gecko biomechanics
Andy Biewener terrestrial locomotion, muscle function
Beth Brainerd evolution of complex mechanical systems - Respiration
Dennis Bramble locomotor-respiratory integration
David Carrier locomotion and vertebrate evolution
M. Edwin DeMont Biomaterials, biofluid dynamics
Ken Dial bird flight
Eliot Drucker Experimental hydrodynamics of fish locomotion
Robert Dudley Biomechanics and evolution of flight
Greg Erickson biomechanics, dinosaurs, teeth, and bone
Frank E. Fish aquaic locomotion, cetacean biomechanics
Steve Gatesy Bird flight, dinosaur locomotion, fossils and recent vertebrate anatomy
Lara Ferry-Graham feeding/ecology interactions in aquatic vertebrates
Alice Gibb feeding in fishes
Gary Gillis Terrestrial locomotion and muscle function
Melina Hale neurophysiology

L. Patricia Hernandez

biomechanics of larval fishes

Sue Herring functional morphology of skull ontogeny
Bruce Jayne lizard locomotion
Ghassan Kassab Blood vessel dynamics and modelling of tissue
Rodger Kram Animal locomotion
Duncan Irschick ecology/locomotion interactions
George Lauder aquatic locomotion
John Long Aquatic locomotion
Jimmy McGuire Flying lizards, ecology, evolution and systematics
Rachel Merz invertebrate locomotion and force production
Philip Motta Functional morphology of sharks
Jim O'Reilly burrowing, scaling and feeding
D. Ann Pabst cetacean biomechanics
Steve Reilly Tetrapod locomtion
Margaret Rubega biomechanics of shorebirds
Laurie Sanderson Filter feeding in fishes
Chris Sandford Functional morphology and evolution of fish feeding
Bob Shadwick Biomechanics of muscle and tendon
Sharon Swartz bat biomechanics, bone biomechanics
Bret Tobalske Field and lab investigations of bird flight
Jeff Walker Fish locomotion and morphology
Peter Wainwright evolution of aquatic feeding and pectoral locomotion
Mark Westneat evolution of labrid fishes - locomotion/feeding
Cheryl Wilga Functional morphology of sharks
   
Invertebrates  
Tom Daniel muscle cell mechanics, unsteady flow: swimming animals
Mark Denny biomechanics of intertidal organisms
Mike Dickinson insect flight
Robert Dudley insect flight
Walter Federle Adhesion, ant-plant interactions
Bob Full invertebrate locomotion - robotics
John Gosline Tissue and fiber biomechanics
Cheryl Hayashi Evolution and material properties of silks
Sönke Johnsen vision, transparency
Bill Kier suction and elongation
Mimi Koehl Biomechancs of small, aquatic organisms
Mike LaBarbara Molluscs - extinct and extand. Muscle function.
   
Plant Biomechanics
Karl Niklas air flow, solid mecahnics, fluid transport
Missy Holbrook root and vine mechanics
   
Other Cool Biomechanics Sites
Steve Deban Feeding in tetrapods (awesome movies)
Nate Kley How blind snakes eat little things fast
Matt McHenry Undulatory locomotion
   
Friends and Collaborators
Kevin Jansen Ecology and population biology of reptiles and amphibians
Nate Lovejoy Phylogenetics, biogeography and the evolution of fishes
Shawn Kutchta Ecology, systematics, and population biology of California Salamanders
Chris Lowe Ecology, physiology and life history of sharks and rays.
Javier Rodriguez-Robles Phylogenetics, biogeography and natural history of reptiles
David Wake Evolution of salamanders
   
  
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25-Feb-2004