Biomechanics of transduction by mechanosensory cilia for prey detection in aquatic organisms.

Surface-feeding aquatic animals navigate towards the source of water disturbances and must differentiate prey from other environmental stimuli. Medicinal leeches locate prey, in part, using a distribution of mechanosensory hairs along their body that deflect under fluid flow. Leech's behavioral responses to surface wave temporal frequency are well documented.

A computational framework for studying energetics and resource management in sea turtle migration and autonomous systems.

Sea turtles complete migrations across vast distances, covering entire ocean basins. To track these migrations, satellite tracking tags are attached to their shells. The impact of these tags must be considered to ensure that turtles' natural behavior is not artificially and adversely impacted through tag-related drag, and that the data collected by a small sample of sea turtles accurately represents the larger population.

A bioinspired navigation strategy that uses magnetic signatures to navigate without GPS in a linearized northern Atlantic ocean: a simulation study.

Certain animal species use the Earth's magnetic field (i.e. magnetoreception) in conjunction with other sensory modalities to navigate long distances.

A Minimally Invasive Lesion Technique for Muscles Intrinsic to the Odontophore of Aplysia californica.

Aplysia californica is a model system for studying the neural control of learning and behavior. This animal has a semi-open circulatory system, making it possible to access many of its internal structures without causing any significant damage. Many manipulations can be easily performed both in vivo and in vitro, making it a highly tractable model for the analysis of behavior and neural circuitry.

Soft-surface grasping: radular opening in .

Grasping soft, irregular material is challenging both for animals and robots. The feeding systems of many animals have adapted to this challenge. In particular, the feeding system of the marine mollusk , a generalist herbivore, allows it to grasp and ingest seaweeds of varying shape, texture and toughness.

Dynameomics: design of a computational lab workflow and scientific data repository for protein simulations.

Dynameomics is a project to investigate and catalog the native-state dynamics and thermal unfolding pathways of representatives of all protein folds using solvated molecular dynamics simulations, as described in the preceding paper. Here we introduce the design of the molecular dynamics data warehouse, a scalable, reliable repository that houses simulation data that vastly simplifies management and access. In the succeeding paper, we describe the development of a complementary multidimensional database.

Dynameomics: a multi-dimensional analysis-optimized database for dynamic protein data.

The Dynameomics project is our effort to characterize the native-state dynamics and folding/unfolding pathways of representatives of all known protein folds by way of molecular dynamics simulations, as described by Beck et al. (in Protein Eng. Des.