Structure and Motion Laboratory
People
Collaborations and Links
Collaborators:
(in no particular order; not including many collaborators at the RVC or in the Structure and Motion Lab, and my PhD students; usually out of date and definitely not comprehensive)
- Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab, Stanford (Scott Delp; also Jeff Reinbolt)- dinosaur and extant bird computer models and simulations of locomotion
- Steve Gatesy (Brown University)- dinosaur locomotion models and animations
- Sandra Shefelbine (Imperial College, London)- bone and joint mechanics in large animals; bone scaling; finite element analysis
- Jennifer Clack (University of Cambridge)- evolution of tetrapod locomotion
- Lei Ren (University of Manchester)- comparative foot biomechanics
- Jonathan Codd (University of Manchester)- breathing and locomotion in broiler chickens
- Adrian Lister and Victoria Herridge (University College London)- dwarf elephant evolution and locomotor biomechanics
- Emily Rayfield (University of Bristol)- finite element analysis of large animal bones
- Richard Lair (Thai Elephant Conservation Center and National Elephant Institute of Thailand)- elephant locomotion
- Thomas Hildebrandt et al. (Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin)- elephant and rhinoceros anatomy and locomotion
- Peter Zioupos and Richard Bull (Cranfield University)- elephant and rhinoceros bone geometry and material properties
- Victor Ng-Thow-Hing (Honda Research Laboratory)- dinosaur 3D body models
- Jonas Rubenson (Northeastern University) - ostrich locomotion model (with Katie Hammond and Rob Siston of Stanford University)
- Kent Vliet (University of Florida) and David Kledzik (St. Augustine Alligator Farm and Zoological Park)- biomechanics of galloping and bounding gaits in crocodilians
- Max Donelan (Simon Fraser University)- elephant nerve anatomy; NSERC grant w/collaborators
- Max Kurz ( University of Houston)- stability of large animal locomotion
- Gerald Weissengruber and colleagues (University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna)- limb anatomy in large animals
- Andrew Lee (University of California) and Michel Laurin (CNRS, Paris)- evolution of the medullary cavity in tetrapods (with Shefelbine et al.)
