Many thanks go out to the U.S. taxpayers as I start my postdoctoral appointment, funded by the National Science Foundation's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology! Over the next two years, I will be studying the locomotion of fascinating marine organisms known as comb jellyfish, or ctenophores. These guys are the largest known animals that swim using cilia-- they're usually between 1 and 15cm long, making them tens or hundreds of times bigger than the microorganisms that typically rely on cilia for their locomotion. In my project, I will extract some of the physical and fluid dynamic principles that allow ctenophores to remain agile and successful in the midst of complex, turbulent fluid flows. Stay tuned-- I will be using this space to share updates on this project, as well as the rest of my research.
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October 2017
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