Biomechanics and Mechanobiology
Below are the list of project associated with the Biomechanics and Mechanobiology theme. Please note that some projects are in collaboration with other themes.
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Projects
Lab Based
| Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Dr Christopher Rowlands | World's Fastest Video Camera |
| Dr David Labonte | AntGate: A colony door which selects for ant size |
| Dr David Labonte | Design of an Actively Powered Omni Directional Insect Treadmill |
| Dr David Labonte | Development of a muscle-fibre tracking algorithm |
| Dr David Labonte | FrankenInsects: Building an open-source and portable device for targeted insect muscle stimulation |
| Dr David Labonte | Going out on a limb: How do insects actively lose their limbs |
| Dr David Labonte | Markerless pose estimation to study the locomotion of load-carrying leaf cutter ants |
| Dr David Labonte | Markerless pose-estimation to study the effects of leg loss on insect locomotion |
| Dr David Labonte | The metabolic costs of insect herbivory |
| Prof Jimmy Moore Jr | Lymph Node Implant for Breast Cancer-Related Lymphoedema |
| Prof Jimmy Moore Jr | MRI phantom to enable imaging of lymphatic vessels |
Desk Based
| Supervisor | Project Title |
|---|---|
| Prof David Sharp, Dr Mazdak Ghajari | Computational prediction of vascular injuries after traumatic brain injury |
| Prof Jimmy Moore Jr | Drug mass transport in the interstitium |
| Dr Choon Hwai Yap | Computational Modelling of Cardiac Biomechanics and Tissue Architecture to Understand Heart Failure |
| Dr Choon Hwai Yap | Catheter Intervention in the Fetal Heart to Prevent Congenital Malformations |
| Dr Choon Hwai Yap | Importance of the Forces of the Heart During Embryonic Heart Development |