Sheila N Patek
Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor
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 (null).” 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? (null)” 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
Dinh, J. P., J. Azza, and S. N. Patek. “Winner effects and switching assessment strategies facilitate fast and frugal decisions in territorial contests.” Animal Behaviour 170 (December 1, 2020): 189–205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.09.012. Full Text
Sutton, Gregory P., Elizabeth Mendoza, Emanuel Azizi, Sarah J. Longo, Jeffrey P. Olberding, Mark Ilton, and Sheila N. Patek. “Corrigendum to: Why do Large Animals Never Actuate Their Jumps with Latch Mediated Springs? Because They can Jump Higher Without Them.” Integrative and Comparative Biology 60, no. 6 (December 2020): 1567. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz149. Full Text
Divi, Sathvik, Xiaotian Ma, Mark Ilton, Ryan St Pierre, Babak Eslami, S. N. Patek, and Sarah Bergbreiter. “Latch-based control of energy output in spring actuated systems.” Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 17, no. 168 (July 22, 2020): 20200070. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0070. 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
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.
Harrison, J. S., M. L. Porter, M. J. Mchenry, H. E. Robinson, and S. N. Patek. “Scaling of elastic mechanisms: the tiny strikes of larval mantis shrimp.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E330–E330. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2019.
Munoz, M. M., S. N. Patek, and Martha Munoz. “Biomechanics as a Pacemaker for Evolutionary Diversity.” In Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59:E165–E165. OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 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.
Pages
Patek, S. N. “Engineering Animals: How Life Works (null).” Quarterly Review of Biology. University of Chicago Press, n.d.
Selected Grants
Collaborative Research: Moving with muscles vs. springs: evolutionary biomechanics of extremely fast, small systems awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2023
Evolutionary Mechanics of Impulsive Biological Systems: Guiding Scalable Synthetic Design awarded by Army Research Office (Principal Investigator). 2015 to 2022
CAREER: The Evolutionary Mechanics of Rapid Movement awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2019
MURI: Evolutionary Mechanics of Impulsive Biological Systems: Guiding Scalable Synthetic Design awarded by Army Research Office (Principal Investigator). 2016
Doctoral Dissertation: Sound Production in Spiny Lobsters (Palinuridai): Morphological Constraints and the Evolution of Signal Diversity awarded by National Science Foundation (PI-Fellow). 1999 to 2001