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01/22/2021: Post-doc opportunity in the Anderson lab! Come work on biological puncture with the group. Details on the front page.

01/03/2021: Check out undergraduate lab member Daniel Clark’s talk entitled: Nest substrate and tool shape significantly affect mechanics and energy requirements of avian eggshell puncture , currently available at the SICB 2021 digital meeting until Feb. 28.

07/06/2020: New paper in Integrative and Comparative Biology by Dr. Anderson along with colleagues Dr. Andy Suarez and Michael Rivera on using simple biomechanical models to explore the evolution of body form in ants.

Anderson, P. S. L., Rivera, M. D. and Suarez, A. V., 2020. “Simple” Biomechanical Model for Ants Reveals How Correlated Evolution among Body Segments Minimizes Variation in Center of Mass as Heads get Larger. Integrative and Comparative Biology Online.

Anderson, P. S. L., Crofts, S. B., Kim, J.-T. and Chamorro, L. P., 2019. Taking a Stab at Quantifying the Energetics of Biological Puncture. Integrative and Comparative Biology 59(6), 1586-1596. Link

Crofts, S. B., Lai, Y., Hu, Y. and Anderson, P. S. L., 2019. How do morphological sharpness measures relate to puncture performance in viperid snake fangs? Biology Letters 15: 20180905. Link

Crofts, S. B. and Anderson, P. S. L., 2018. The influence of cactus spine surface structure on puncture performance and anchoring ability is tuned for ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285, 20182280. Link

Anderson, P. S. L., 2018. Making a point: shared mechanics underlying the diversity of biological puncture. Journal of Experimental Biology 221: jeb187294.