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

SupervisorProject Title
Dr Christopher Rowlands World's Fastest Video Camera
Dr Rylie Green Living electrode-on-a-chip development of microphysiological models to study bioelectronic interfaces in vitro
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
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Desk Based

SupervisorProject 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
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