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The Patek Lab has received funding to study mantis shrimp acoustic communication. We will examine its function and the effects of anthropogenic noise on this newly discovered system.
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Led by Jonathan Stillman (San Francisco State University), Sheila Patek joined the team to lead a discussion about the Grand Challenges in Biology at the recent conference of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The outcomes of this workshop and group effort was just published in... Read More
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Sheila Patek and Michael Rosario from the Patek Lab and Dan Dudek from Virginia Polytech published a new paper about elastic movements in invertebrates. Following a "Commentary" style, the paper was published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Click here to view the article or... Read More
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Sheila Patek and co-PI's David Schmidt and Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi from the UMass Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department were awarded a grant from the Armstrong Fund for Science. The Armstrong Fund for Science aims to fund faculty "with aggressive research visions, who are willing... Read More
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Michael Rosario, a Patek Lab graduate student, was awarded the highly competitive Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to Michael!
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Suzanne Cox, a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department and honorary Patek Lab member was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship.Congratulations to Suzanne!
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ScienceCareers features Sheila Patek and advice about humor in presentations (for April Fool's Day!).
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Erica Staaterman's new documentary film about the spiny lobster short season in Florida was featured at the Beneath the Waves film festival.
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The Northeast is being pounded by winter storms, but our mantis shrimp are warm and cozy in their tanks. We love how often these charismatic animals inspire artwork. Oil pastel by Patrick Hamilton, a friend of the Patek Lab and fan of stomatopods.
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Congratulations to Michael!
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We can't take any credit for this remarkable short film, but it's so beautiful we couldn't resist featuring it on our front page. Natividad Chen is a Brown University undergraduate who, as part of an Invertebrate Zoology course, made this short film about the mantis shrimp's strike. ... Read More
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Postdoc Thomas Claverie, UC Berkeley undergraduate Eliot Chan, and Sheila Patek published a new paper in the journal Evolution. This paper offers a new look at the evolution of systems that generate extremely fast movements. Using cutting edge methods to analyze biological shape, the authors... Read More
The Patek Lab has received funding to study mantis shrimp acoustic communication. We will examine its function and the effects of anthropogenic noise on this newly discovered system.
Led by Jonathan Stillman (San Francisco State University), Sheila Patek joined the team to lead a discussion about the Grand Challenges in Biology at the recent conference of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. The outcomes of this workshop and group effort was just published in... Read More
Sheila Patek and Michael Rosario from the Patek Lab and Dan Dudek from Virginia Polytech published a new paper about elastic movements in invertebrates. Following a "Commentary" style, the paper was published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. Click here to view the article or... Read More
Sheila Patek and co-PI's David Schmidt and Yahya Modarres-Sadeghi from the UMass Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department were awarded a grant from the Armstrong Fund for Science. The Armstrong Fund for Science aims to fund faculty "with aggressive research visions, who are willing... Read More
Michael Rosario, a Patek Lab graduate student, was awarded the highly competitive Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to Michael!
Suzanne Cox, a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering department and honorary Patek Lab member was awarded the prestigious National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship.Congratulations to Suzanne!
ScienceCareers features Sheila Patek and advice about humor in presentations (for April Fool's Day!).
Erica Staaterman's new documentary film about the spiny lobster short season in Florida was featured at the Beneath the Waves film festival.
The Northeast is being pounded by winter storms, but our mantis shrimp are warm and cozy in their tanks. We love how often these charismatic animals inspire artwork. Oil pastel by Patrick Hamilton, a friend of the Patek Lab and fan of stomatopods.
Congratulations to Michael!
Postdoc Thomas Claverie, UC Berkeley undergraduate Eliot Chan, and Sheila Patek published a new paper in the journal Evolution. This paper offers a new look at the evolution of systems that generate extremely fast movements. Using cutting edge methods to analyze biological shape, the authors... Read More