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Natalie Holt PhD
Assistant professor Nihav Dhawale PhD
I am a postdoctoral scholar developing a thermal imaging system to better understand the complex links between muscle energetics and mechanics. I did my PhD at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India and was a visiting scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. During my PhD I worked on the dynamics and energetics of running locomotion. Prior to this I completed my M.Sc. in physics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and a B.Sc. in physics from the University of Mumbai.
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Graduate students
Brian Hamilton
MSc student (Northern Arizona University) Allyn Nguyen
PhD student I received my B.S. in Biological Sciences with an emphasis in Zoology and M.S. in Biological Sciences from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. During my M.S., I quantified contractile properties and identified tonic muscle fiber types in the jaw muscle complex of the southern alligator lizard (Elgaria multicarinata). I have always had a fascination with animals but as time went on that fascination formed more into curiosity for investigating what makes an animal tick. Currently, I am interested primarily in fatigue characteristics and performance capabilities of muscle and what might make one organism, or even one muscle or muscle fiber type, more or less fatigable in comparison to another.
Anthony Cobos
PhD student I received a M.S. in biological sciences from Cal State, Northridge where I carried out a comparative study on cave-dwelling geckos in Southeast Asia. I quantified differences in morphology, physiology, and cling performance to assess the convergent properties of traits in a clade of geckos (Cyrtodactylus) inhabiting caves realtive to their closely related (non-cave dwelling) sister species. Currently, I am interested in the effect that temperate has on the muscle physiology of ectotherms. Changes in temperature pose unique challenges to ectotherms, of which has underlying effects on muscle contractile properties. Given how variable environmental pressures can be on muscle performance, I want to explore how ectotherms cope with, and overcome potential environmental constraints
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