Welcome to the Hedrick Lab at UNC!
Lab news:
New Hedrick Lab publication: Neuromuscular control of free-flight yaw turns in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta by Dwight Springthorpe, María José Fernández and Ty Hedrick, now available in The Journal of Experimental Biology - read it here!
Congratulations to Jeremy Greeter on receiving a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship!
Hummers fly with a twist: A collaborative Hedrick lab paper using high-speed X-ray videography to visualize the hummingbird flight stroke just came out in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, you can also read about it in Nature News.
New Hedrick Lab publication: A collabarative study between the Hedrick lab and Purdue's Bio-robotics laboratory on the aerodynamics and control of free-flight maneuvers in hawkmoths has just been published in the Journal of Experimental Biology - read it here!
New Hedrick Lab publication: A Journal of Experimental Biology commentary on damping in flapping flight and its consequences for animal diversity and evolution has just been published - read it here!
We're featured on the NPR Science Friday video blog! Check out this movie showing some of our ongoing work on hawkmoths!
PhD student Ryan Shelton is rotating through the Hedrick lab as he explores the world of comparative biomechanics at UNC
Dwight Springthorpe left to start as a PhD student in the Poly-PEDAL lab at UC Berkeley
PhD student Shannon Jones joined the Hedrick lab (and the Miller lab) from the BBSP
Lab technician Brad Dickerson has started a Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Washington. Go Brad!
