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Latest News
- Alejandro Rico-Guevara in UW News on how male hummingbird bills have evolved for fighting (November 21, 2025)
- Alyssa Sargent featured on the "Write for You" podcast [AUDIO] (August 4, 2025)
- Sharlene Santana awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (June 1, 2025)
- Alejandro Rico-Guevara on NPR's "All Things Considered" about hummingbird evolution and adaptation to human influence [AUDIO] (May 23, 2025)
- Adam Summers awarded 2025-2026 Rome Prize in Environmental Arts and Humanities (April 23, 2025)
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- Cassandra M Donatelli, Megan L Vandenberg, Lorenzo E Martinez, Andrew K Schulz, E W Misty Paig-Tran, Karly E Cohen, The Bioinspiration Feedback Loop: An Interdisciplinary Exchange of Processes and Progress Between Biologists and Engineers, Integrative and Comparative Biology, Volume 65, Issue 6, December 2025, Pages 1536–1550, https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icaf128
- Vandenberg, Megan L, Olivia H Hawkins, Eric Chier, Shirel R Kahane-Rapport, Adam P Summers, and Cassandra M Donatelli. “How Rugose Can You Go? Spiny Agonidae Armour Decreases Boundary Layer Separation.” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 143, no. 1 (2024): blae075. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blae075.
- Formation of a fringe: A look inside baleen morphology using a multimodal visual approach, Vandenberg Megan L, Cohen Karly E, Rubin Robert D, Goldbogen Jeremey A, Summers Adam P, Paig-Tran Misty E W, and Kahane-Rapport Shirel R, Journal of Morphology (2023)
- Long duration advertisement calls of nesting male plainfin midshipman fish are honest indicators of size and condition, Balebail S. and Sisneros Joseph A., Journal of Experimental Biology (2022)
- Mechanistic insights into actin force generation during vesicle formation from cryo-electron tomography, Akamatsu Matthew, Vasan Ritvik, Serwas Daniel, Rangamani Padmini, Schöneberg Johannes, Drubin David G., Moayed Amir, Vegesna Karthik, Hill Jennifer M., and Davies Karen M., Developmental Cell (2022)
- Value of models for membrane budding, Akamatsu Matthew, Rangamani Padmini, and Lee Christopher T., Current Opinion in Cell Biology, Volume 71, p.38–45 (2021)
- Principles of self-organization and load adaptation by the actin cytoskeleton during clathrin-mediated endocytosis, Akamatsu Matthew, Vasan Ritvik, Serwas Daniel, Ferrin Michael A, Rangamani Padmini, and Drubin David G, eLife, Volume 9 (2020)
- The balance hypothesis for the avian lumbosacral organ and an exploration of its morphological variation, Brunton Bingni W, Stanchak Kathryn E, French Cooper, and Perkel David J, Integrative Organismal Biology, Volume 2, p.obaa024 (2020)
- Landing maneuvers of houseflies on vertical and inverted surfaces, Sane Sanjay P, Raja Sathish K., and Balebail Sujay., Plos One (2019)
- Shakers and head bangers: differences in sonication behavior between Australian Amegilla murrayensis (blue-banded bees) and North American Bombus impatiens (bumblebees), Switzer Callin M., Hogendoorn Katja, Ravi Sridhar, and Combes Stacey A., Arthropod-Plant Interactions, Volume 10, p.1-8 (2016)