Two LIMBS students tie the knot!
As proof that the LIMBS lab has a friendly lab culture (maybe too friendly?), LIMBS members Alican Demir and Erin Sutton tied the knot on January 3, 2015. All joking aside, warm congratulations, Alican and Erin!
As proof that the LIMBS lab has a friendly lab culture (maybe too friendly?), LIMBS members Alican Demir and Erin Sutton tied the knot on January 3, 2015. All joking aside, warm congratulations, Alican and Erin!
On Thursday December 11 Alican Demir presented his PhD dissertation research to a packed seminar room at Johns Hopkins. Alican joined the lab as a Freshman in 2013, performed MSE thesis research in the lab, worked as a research specialist for a few years, and then completed his PhD, so his contributions have been monumental in shaping the LIMBS laboratory over the years. Congratulations Alican!
@article{mongeaumechanical2014,
title = {Mechanical processing via passive dynamic properties
of the cockroach antenna can facilitate control
during rapid running},
journal = {J Exp Biol},
author = {Mongeau, Jean-Michel and Demir, Alican and Dallmann, Chris J. and Jayaram, Kaushik and Cowan, Noah J. and Full, Robert J.},
year = 2014,
volume = 217,
number = 18,
pages = {3333--3345},
doi = {10.1242/jeb.101501},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.101501},
}
@article{mongeaulocomotion2013,
author = {Mongeau, Jean-Michel and Demir, Alican and Lee, Jusuk and Cowan, Noah J. and Full, Robert J.},
title = {Locomotion- and mechanics-mediated tactile sensing:
antenna reconfiguration simplifies control during
high-speed navigation in cockroaches},
journal = {J Exp Biol},
volume = 216,
number = 24,
pages = {4530--4541},
year = 2013,
doi = {10.1242/jeb.083477},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.083477}
}
@ARTICLE{cowantask-level2006,
author = {Cowan, Noah J. and Lee, Jusuk and Full, Robert J.},
title = {Task-level control of rapid wall following in the
{A}merican cockroach},
journal = {J Exp Biol},
year = 2006,
volume = 209,
pages = {1617--1629},
number = 9,
doi = {10.1242/jeb.02166},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.02166}
}
@inproceedings{demirtunable2010,
author = {Demir, Alican and Samson, Edward W. and Cowan, Noah J.},
title = {A tunable physical model of arthropod antennae},
booktitle = {Proc IEEE Int Conf Robot Autom},
year = 2010,
pages = {3793-3798},
address = {Anchorage, AK, USA},
month = may,
doi = {10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509323},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509323}
}
A. Demir, “A Modular, Tunable Tactile Antenna for Exploring the Mechanics of Sensing,” Master Thesis, 2009. @MASTERSTHESIS{demirmodular2009,
author = {Demir, Alican},
title = {A Modular, Tunable Tactile Antenna for Exploring the Mechanics of Sensing},
school = {Johns Hopkins University},
year = 2009,
url = {https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_3985789}
}
PhD Student Alican Demir presented his research at an IROS 2014 workshop on “Active Touch in Animals and Robots“.
Special thanks to our collaborators, Jean-Michel Mongeau and Bob Full.
From right-to-left Jusuk Lee (graduated 2009), Alican Demir (will graduate 2014), Vinutha Kallem (graduated 2008), and Vinutha’s husband Pranava. What a great reunion!
Here are Vinutha and Jusuk in front of a million dollar door in Chicago:
PhD candidate Mustafa Mert Ankarali has been selected to join the prestigious Siebel Scholars Class of 2015. This scholarship is awarded annually for academic excellence and demonstrated leadership to 85 top students from world’s leading graduate schools. Mert is the first Siebel Scholar from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at JHU.
Congratulations Shahin!!!
LIMBS Lab Postdoc Sarah Stamper was awarded the International Society for Neuroethology’s Young Investigator Award. This prestigious award “… recognizes … early post-doctoral fellows who have shown outstanding promise and have already made a significant research contribution in neuroethology.” She will report her work in a special lecture at the ISN’s 2014 meeting in July in Sapporo, Japan.
LIMBS Lab postdoc Sarah Stamper placed third in the poster competition for the 1st Annual Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Retreat on May 16, 2014. Sarah’s poster was on understanding communication and movement in groups of fish that live along the Amazon basin and use electrical signals for sensing.
LIMBS Lab members past and present were extremely well represented at the 2014 Convocation Awards!