Sheila N Patek

Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor

Office:

014 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box:

Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708-0338

Phone:

(919) 613-8306

Email:

snp2@duke.edu

http://www.thepateklab.org/

Education

Ph.D., Duke University 2001

Biewener, Andrew, and Sheila Patek. Animal Locomotion. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Biewener, A. A., and S. N. Patek. Animal locomotion, second edition, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198743156.001.0001. Full Text

Podos, J., and S. N. Patek. “Acoustic Signal Evolution: Biomechanics, Size, and Performance.” In Animal Signaling and Function: An Integrative Approach, 9780470546000:175–203, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118966624.ch7. Full Text

Patek, S. N., P. A. Green, and M. V. Rosario. “Internal Morphology.” In Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology: The Crustacea, edited by J. C. von Vauple Klein, M. Charmantier-Daures, and F. Schram, 4 Part A:202–16. Boston: Brill, 2013.

Patek, S. N., and J. R. A. Taylor. “Crustacean seismic communication: heard but not present?” In The Use of Vibrations in Communication: Properties, Mechanisms andfunction across Taxa, edited by C. E. O. O’Connell-Rodwell, 9–23, 2010.

Patek, S. N., R. M. Feldmann, M. Porter, and D. Tshudy. “Phylogeny and Evolution.” In Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture and Fisheries, 113–45, 2006. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470995969.ch4. Full Text

Sutton, Gregory P., Elizabeth Mendoza, Emanuel Azizi, Sarah J. Longo, Jeffrey P. Olberding, Mark Ilton, and Sheila N. Patek. “Why do Large Animals Never Actuate Their Jumps with Latch-Mediated Springs? Because They can Jump Higher Without Them.” Integrative and Comparative Biology 59, no. 6 (December 2019): 1609–18. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz145. Full Text

Patek, S. N. “The Power of Mantis Shrimp Strikes: Interdisciplinary Impacts of an Extreme Cascade of Energy Release.” Integrative and Comparative Biology 59, no. 6 (December 2019): 1573–85. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz127. Full Text

Ilton, Mark, S. M. Cox, Thijs Egelmeers, Gregory P. Sutton, S. N. Patek, and Alfred J. Crosby. “The effect of size-scale on the kinematics of elastic energy release.” Soft Matter 15, no. 46 (November 2019): 9579–86. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sm00870e. Full Text

Longo, S. J., S. M. Cox, E. Azizi, M. Ilton, J. P. Olberding, R. St Pierre, and S. N. Patek. “Beyond power amplification: latch-mediated spring actuation is an emerging framework for the study of diverse elastic systems.” The Journal of Experimental Biology 222, no. Pt 15 (August 9, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.197889. Full Text

Farley, G. M., M. J. Wise, J. S. Harrison, G. P. Sutton, C. Kuo, and S. N. Patek. “Adhesive latching and legless leaping in small, worm-like insect larvae.” The Journal of Experimental Biology 222, no. Pt 15 (August 8, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.201129. Full Text

Green, P. A., M. J. McHenry, and S. N. Patek. “Context-dependent scaling of kinematics and energetics during contests and feeding in mantis shrimp.” The Journal of Experimental Biology 222, no. Pt 7 (April 4, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.198085. Full Text

Crane, R. L., S. M. Cox, S. A. Kisare, and S. N. Patek. “Smashing mantis shrimp strategically impact shells.” The Journal of Experimental Biology 221, no. Pt 11 (June 14, 2018). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.176099. Full Text

Ilton, Mark, M Saad Bhamla, Xiaotian Ma, Suzanne M. Cox, Leah L. Fitchett, Yongjin Kim, Je-Sung Koh, et al. “The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 360, no. 6387 (April 2018). https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aao1082. Full Text

Patek, S. N., and Sarah J. Longo. “Evolutionary Biomechanics: The Pathway to Power in Snapping Shrimp.” Current Biology : Cb 28, no. 3 (February 2018): R115–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.12.033. Full Text

Green, P. A., and S. N. Patek. “Mutual assessment during ritualized fighting in mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda).” Proceedings. Biological Sciences 285, no. 1871 (January 2018). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2542. Full Text

Pages

Harrison, J. S., M. L. Porter, and S. N. Patek. “Scaling and development of elastic mechanisms: the tiny strikes of larval mantis shrimp.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60:E97–E97, 2020.

Munoz, M. M., P. S. L. Anderson, Y. Hu, S. N. Patek, and H. Camarillo. “How Predictable and Correlated are Patterns of Form-Function Evolution?” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60:E168–E168, 2020.

Patek, S. N. “Plenary Lecture - Impact and discovery: extreme movement in an interdisciplinary and political world.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60:E392–E392, 2020.

Dinh, J. P., J. Azza, and S. N. Patek. “Assessing Your Opponent: Snapping Shrimp Use Indirect Cues to Settle Ritualized Contests.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60:E58–E58, 2020.

Longo, S. J., S. M. Cox, E. Azizi, M. Ilton, J. P. Olberding, R. St Pierre, and S. N. Patek. “Beyond power amplification: new insights from latch-mediated spring actuation (LaMSA).” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60:E144–E144, 2020.

Jorge, J., and S. N. Patek. “Taking a swing at measuring small-scale, high acceleration impacts: a novel two-pendulum approach.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 60:E114–E114, 2020.

Munoz, M., P. S. L. Anderson, Y. Hu, and S. N. Patek. “Biomechanical Relationships Shape Cranial and Locomotor Evolution in Labrid Fishes.” In Journal of Morphology, 280:S67–S67. WILEY, 2019.

Farley, G. M., C. N. Bedore, and S. N. Patek. “Rapid hydrostatic tentacle protrusion in cuttlefish.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E311–E311. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2019.

Jorge, J. F., J. S. Harrison, P. S. Manos, and S. N. Patek. “Biomechanics of ballistic seed dispersal in the witch hazel (Hamamelis).” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E115–E115. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2019.

Patek, S. N. “The power of extreme movement: evolution, behavior, and biomechanics of mantis shrimp strikes.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E180–E180. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2019.