Faculty

Biology

Supervisor Name

Natasha Mhatre

Keywords

joint stiffness, spider, leg morphology, biomechanics

Description

This poster investigates the relationship between joint stiffness and spider leg morphology, with an interest in collecting data to create more accurate biomechanical models of spiders.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Dr. Mhatre, for providing ongoing support throughout the summer, Reese Gartly, for developing the models, performing data analysis, and providing guidance, and Mouad Elganga, for assistance with spider and data collection, and data analysis.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.

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Poster

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The Relationship Between Joint Stiffness and Leg Morphology in Spiders

This poster investigates the relationship between joint stiffness and spider leg morphology, with an interest in collecting data to create more accurate biomechanical models of spiders.

 

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