Integration across anatomy and physiology is the basis for understanding feeding behaviour in vertebrates

The impact of muscle activation dynamics and other intrinsic properties on reaching movements: A simulation study

Navigating biological space: essentials of biology for bio-inspired design

Atlantic salmon maturation: contributions from large-effect locus and environmental factors in influencing maturation age in two populations in a common garden setting.

The collective mechanics and control of locomotion in sea stars

Evolutionary co-optimisation of robot morphology and control: toward a seahorse-tail inspired robotic manipulator

Biomechanical behaviour of lizard osteoderms and skin under external loading

The upright posture hypothesis: vertical descents in small arboreal mammals sheds light on the origins of primate specializations

Mechanisms for aerostructural flow control during avian wing morphing

From climate warming to accelerated cellular ageing: insights from two experimental studies in wild passerine birds

Impact of Photon Recycling on Absorption Losses in Tunnel Junction-Based III-Nitride LEDs

Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Highly Tensile Strained GeSnC Alloys up to 4% Sn and 3% C

Guided-Mode Resonance Enhanced Room-Temperature Infrared Detectors

Majority Carrier Concentration and Minority Carrier Lifetime in Mid-wave Infrared InGaAs/InAsSb and InAs/InAsSb Superlattice nBn Detectors

Growth and Characterization of AlInSbBi for Wide-Bandgap Barriers on InSb

Separation of Defect States and Intrinsic Channel Mobility on the Electrical Operation of IGZO TFTs

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Intra-oral food processing is a common feature of vertebrate feeding, characteristic not only of mammals, but also bony fishes, sharks, lizards, and birds. This taxonomical diversity offers an opportunity to evaluate relationships between architectural, physiological, mechanical, behavioral, and morphological diversity across a broad range of feeding system designs. At present, we lack a synthesis for the diversity of oral, intra-oral, and post-oral food processing behaviors, their functional roles, and the optimality criteria acting upon food processing across disparate vertebrate taxa. This session seeks to engage researchers working on structure-motion-mechanics, nutritional and ecological physiology, and macro-ecology and -evolution. Traditionally, those groups have weak interactions at SEB and we would like to contribute to breaking this trend. The key questions addressed by this special session are: What are the functions and optimality criteria of intra-oral food processing in vertebrates, and how do these parameters vary across taxa? Energetic considerations impact feeding system design at multiple scales, from the level of the whole organism down to individual muscles. Determining the appropriate scale at which to invoke energetic explanations is an important component of functional analysis. Are there unifying biomechanical and functional constraints on food processing across vertebrates and what mechanisms do different taxa use to overcome these constraints?

A19: Not just down the hatch: food processing, transport, and assimilation in jawed vertebrates 

technical paper

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Robotic models can provide new insights into how animals use musculoskeletal systems to move through their environment. These biological motors drive crucial physiological, behavioural—and ultimately ecological and evolutionary—processes. But the complexity of interacting muscles and skeletal elements limits what we can directly observe and measure. Replicating aspects of these biological systems with robotic mechanisms lets us test new hypotheses and explore biologically inspired design applications. This session brings together a diverse set of researchers exploring new ways to implement and apply musculoskeletal robotics.

A4: Muscles & Motors: Organismal bioinspired robotics

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A23:  Open Animal

A22: Open biomechanics

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Robotic models can provide new insights into how animals use musculoskeletal systems to move through their environment. These biological motors drive crucial physiological, behavioural—and ultimately ecological and evolutionary—processes. But the complexity of interacting muscles and skeletal elements limits what we can directly observe and measure. Replicating aspects of these biological systems with robotic mechanisms lets us test new hypotheses and explore biologically inspired design applications. This session brings together a diverse set of researchers exploring new ways to implement and apply musculoskeletal robotics.

Among terrestrial vertebrates, many species develop bony elements within their skin. These elements, known as osteoderms, demonstrate an unexpected diversity in size, shape, taxonomic distribution, and histological composition. Although often suggested to participate as a form of physical defence, various other functions have been advanced. In this interdisciplinary session, we will explore the morphological, taxonomic, and functional diversity of osteoderms from multiple perspectives using a variety of investigative strategies. Speakers come with expertise in biomimetic engineering, biomechanics, comparative anatomy and imaging, palaeontology, physiology, and developmental and regenerative biology with the goal of advancing our understanding of these enigmatic elements. 

A17: Skeleton in the skin: Studying structure from all viewpoints

A23: Open Animal

Telomeres. the chromosome ends controlling cell replication capacity , are posited to have an important role in cell senescence and ageing. Telomeres predict life expectancy, and theey are thought to link with lifestyle conditions. Additionally , within species , telomeres and their dynamic present consistent between individual differences , which could reflect inter individual variability in health and ageing rates. This session will examine factors (i.e genetics , environmental conditions, transgenerational effects , early -life programming , effects) that shape telomere dynamics and contribute to understanding the causes of interindividual variation in telomere dynamics and how this could turn shape individual ftness, ageing rates and life -history trajectories.

A5: To make the ends meet: instrinsic and extrinsic determinants of interindividual variation in telomere dynamics in non-model species

V: Group III-Nitrides—Light Emitting Diodes 

poster

T: Epitaxial Growth of Highly Mismatched Alloys

R: Detectors and Narrow Bandgap Materials

Q: Oxide Semiconductor Devices, Defects and Transport

Engineering

Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Aerospace Engineering

**Biomedical Engineering** is the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, driven by efforts to **improve human health**.