Sheila N Patek
Associate Professor in the Department of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Duke University 2001
Biewener, A, and Patek, S. Animal Locomotion.: Oxford University Press, March 22, 2018.
Biewener, AA, and Patek, SN. Animal locomotion, second edition. January 1, 2018. Full Text
Podos, J, and Patek, SN. "Acoustic Signal Evolution: Biomechanics, Size, and Performance." In Animal Signaling and Function: An Integrative Approach, 175-203. January 20, 2015. Full Text
Patek, SN, Green, PA, and Rosario, MV. "Internal Morphology." In Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology: The Crustacea,edited by JC von Vauple Klein, M Charmantier-Daures, and F Schram, 202-216. Boston: Brill, 2013. (Essay)
Patek, SN, and Taylor, JRA. "Crustacean seismic communication: heard but not present?." In The Use of Vibrations in Communication: properties, mechanisms and function across taxa,edited by CEO O'Connell-Rodwell, 9-23. 2010. (Essay)
Patek, SN, Feldmann, RM, Porter, M, Tshudy, D, Patek, SN, Feldmann, RM, Porter, M, and Tshudy, D. "Phylogeny and EvolutionPhylogeny and Evolution (PublishedPublished)." In Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture and Fisheries, 113-145. November 16, 2007. Full Text
Crane, RL, Cox, SM, Kisare, SA, and Patek, SN. "Smashing mantis shrimp strategically impact shells." The Journal of Experimental Biology 221, no. Pt 11 (June 14, 2018). Full Text
Ilton, M, Bhamla, MS, Ma, X, Cox, SM, Fitchett, LL, Kim, Y, Koh, J-S, Krishnamurthy, D, Kuo, C-Y, Temel, FZ, Crosby, AJ, Prakash, M, Sutton, GP, Wood, RJ, Azizi, E, Bergbreiter, S, and Patek, SN. "The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems." Science (New York, N.Y.) 360, no. 6387 (April 2018). Full Text
Patek, SN, and Longo, SJ. "Evolutionary Biomechanics: The Pathway to Power in Snapping Shrimp." Current Biology : Cb 28, no. 3 (February 2018): R115-R117. Full Text
Green, PA, and Patek, SN. "Mutual assessment during ritualized fighting in mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda)." Proceedings. Biological sciences 285, no. 1871 (January 2018). Full Text
Liu, F, Chavez, RL, Patek, SN, Pringle, A, Feng, JJ, and Chen, C-H. "Asymmetric drop coalescence launches fungal ballistospores with directionality." Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 14, no. 132 (July 2017). Full Text
Patek, SN, and Summers, AP. "Invertebrate biomechanics." Current biology : CB 27, no. 10 (May 2017): R371-R375. Full Text
Muñoz, MM, Anderson, PSL, and Patek, SN. "Mechanical sensitivity and the dynamics of evolutionary rate shifts in biomechanical systems." Proceedings. Biological sciences 284, no. 1847 (January 2017). Full Text
McHenry, MJ, Anderson, PSL, Van Wassenbergh, S, Matthews, DG, Summers, AP, and Patek, SN. "The comparative hydrodynamics of rapid rotation by predatory appendages." The Journal of Experimental Biology 219, no. Pt 21 (November 2016): 3399-3411. Full Text
Rosario, MV, Sutton, GP, Patek, SN, and Sawicki, GS. "Muscle-spring dynamics in time-limited, elastic movements." Proceedings. Biological Sciences 283, no. 1838 (September 2016). Full Text
Anderson, PSL, Smith, DC, and Patek, SN. "Competing influences on morphological modularity in biomechanical systems: a case study in mantis shrimp." Evolution & Development 18, no. 3 (May 2016): 171-181. Full Text
Pages
Muñoz, MM, Hu, Y, Anderson, PSL, and Patek, SN. "Strong biomechanical relationships bias the tempo and mode of morphological evolution." August 9, 2018. Full Text
Jorge, J, Kumar, A, Sutton, G, and Patek, SN. "Tick-Tock Tiny Impacts: A Novel Pendulum Mechanism for Measuring the Energetics of Trap-Jaw Ant Strikes." Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB). San Francisco, CA. January 3, 2018 - January 7, 2018.: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, March 1, 2018.
Temel, FZ, Sutton, GP, Patek, SN, and Wood, RJ. "Trap-jaw ant-inspired jaw-jumping mechanisms explore energetics of insect jumping." Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB). San Francisco, CA. January 3, 2018 - January 7, 2018.: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, March 1, 2018.
Farley, GM, Harrison, JS, Wise, MJ, Sutton, GP, and Patek, SN. "Leaping larvae: hydrostatic jumpers at the mm-scale." Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB). San Francisco, CA. January 3, 2018 - January 7, 2018.: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, March 1, 2018.
Green, PA, and Patek, SN. "Communication and Combat: The Function of Ultrafast, Ritualized Striking in Mantis Shrimp." Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB). San Francisco, CA. January 3, 2018 - January 7, 2018.: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, March 1, 2018.
Patek, SN, Sutton, GP, Kuo, CY, Temel, FZ, and Wood, RJ. "Elastic energy delivery and power amplification of trap-jaw ant strikes." Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Integrative-and-Comparative-Biology (SICB). San Francisco, CA. January 3, 2018 - January 7, 2018.: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, March 1, 2018.
Rosario, MV, Sutton, GP, Patek, SN, and Sawicki, GS. "The springs of time-limited bullfrog jumps and slow-preparation grasshopper leaps are tuned to their muscle dynamics." March 2017.
Green, PA, and Patek, SN. "Mantis shrimp use ritualized sparring as an aggressive signal in escalated contests." March 2017.
Patek, SN, Azizi, M, Bhamla, MS, Ilton, M, Kim, Y, Koh, J, Kuo, J, Ma, X, Prakash, M, Sutton, GP, and Temel, Z. "Extreme power amplification in biological systems." March 2017.
Kuo, CY, Ruta, A, Thompson, C, and Patek, SN. "Extreme asymmetry in the energy transfer rate of trap-jaw ant mandibles." March 2017.
Pages
Patek, SN. "Engineering Animals: How Life Works." Quarterly Review of Biology 88, no. 1: 49-50. (Review)
Selected Grants
CAREER: The Evolutionary Mechanics of Rapid Movement awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2019
Evolutionary Mechanics of Impulsive Biological Systems: Guiding Scalable Synthetic Design awarded by Army Research Office (Principal Investigator). 2015 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... awarded by National Science Foundation (PI-Fellow). 1999 to 2001