Bioengineering Hyperbook

Department of Bioengineering


Category: Vision

Just Keep Swimming: Structure, Movement, and Light Interactions of Unicellular Green Algae

Unicellular green algae, stress, locomotion, kinematics, swimming, light properties

Ai-Lan Ji-Eun Nguyen, Tesnim Obey, Anders Schwarz, Jackson Yu

Sensory Cascades and Pathways – Natural and Artificial Neural Networks

Artificial neural networks, machine learning, sensing, cognition, brains

Yaman Al Janaideh, David Bettan, Kaitlyn Cribb, Vanessa Piché

Animal Communication: A Physical Review

Structural Coloration, Photonics, Echolocation, Electrocommunication, Nanostructures, Signaling

Adam Khan, Janique Mayrand, Olivia Ouellet, Angela Wang

Courtship and Mating: the Physics of Sexual Dimorphism and its Evolutionary Function

Reproduction, Dimorphism, Evolution, Optics, Bioluminescence, Biomechanics, Courtship and Mating

Liam Fetherstonhaugh, Joseph Grotsky, Chloe Jacquet, Samuel Nidelli

The Hidden Properties Behind Animal Foraging Strategies

Foraging, Group Behaviour, Cooperation, Tool, Detection, Gathering

Ella Gadoury, Emma Lee, Floriane Baudin, Tian Rui Wang

Information Storage and Processing as Part of Pattern Formation, Photoreception, Thermoreception, and Mechanoreception of the Integument

Information storage, integument, Turing patterns, feedback loops, sensing

Juyoun Bae, Andrei Bocan, Justin Charney, Lan Anh Huynh

Visual Lateralization in the Animal Kingdom

Brain lateralization, vision, sensing, signal propagation, memory, neurons

Tuna Gedik, Nassib Hassouna, Mohul Sharma, Michelle Sateen Yazbek

The Biomolecular Design of the Eye

Photoreception, Eye anatomy, Lenses, Isomerization, Visual Spectrum

Tuna Gedik, Nassib Hassouna, Mohul Sharma, Michelle Sateen Yazbek

The Optical Properties of Camera Eyes

Eyes, Optical Properties, Refraction, Photoreceptor, Lenses, Focal Length, Accommodation

Tuna Gedik, Nassib Hassouna, Mohul Sharma, Michelle Sateen Yazbek