Bioengineering Hyperbook

Department of Bioengineering


Category: Animals

Slime Mold: A True Biological Computer 

Network optimization, CELL models, Slime Mold Algorithm, Cognition, Game theory, Pattern formation, Reaction-Diffusion theory, Keller-Segel Model, Biomaterial

Audrey Pepin, Ethan Levene, Olivia Cozariuc, Tamir Kegeles

Strategic Salps: Mathematical Logic Behind Salp Survival 

Salps; Game Theory; Diel Vertical Migration; Salp Swarm Algorithm; Optimization

Steven Lin, Stephanie Roy, Daniel Tang, Canyu Wu, Mollee Ye

Euler Who? The Original Optimizers: Heterocephalus glaber and Their Algorithmic Society 

Naked mole rat, Graph theory, Optimization, Eusocial, Mating, Algorithm

Clayton Dame, David Bensemana, Lana Habhab

From Feathers to Formations: A Mathematical Analysis of Starling Murmurations 

Networks, Scale-Free Topologies, Murmurations, Geometry of Avian Physiology, Egg Geometry

Maeve Ding, Matt Levasseur, Nicole Shen, Rachael Zhang

Exploring Locust Behavior: Flight Optimization, Population Dynamics, and Energy Efficiency 

Locust, Logarithmic spiral, Flight modelling, Metabolic rate, Oxidative stress

Frederic Koran, Claire Leader, Alexandra Stoilova, Alina Weng

The Mathematics of Antarctic Krill 

Optimization, chaos theory, krill herd algorithm, Lotka-Volterra, Leslie-Gower

Alaia Krishnan Claveras, Celina Moukarzel, Chloe Chan Lam, Julia Purdue, Lina Benchekor 

Built on Simplicity: A Mathematical Analysis of Hydrozoa and Bryozoa 

Scaling relationships, geometry, branching patterns, growth, competitive hierarchy, Hydrozoa, Bryozoa

Aizaz Ahsan Wahla, Ocean Burland, Dante Daniel Garcia Perez & Jessica Michalski 

Understanding the Behavior of Schooling Fish Through Mathematical Models  

Fish, School, Collective behavior, Patterns, Interactions, Information transfer

Anne-Sophie Roy, Emma Warner, Hoi Ching Wat, Lucas Yatcyshyn 

Buzzing Through the Numbers 

Bee, Honeycomb, Space optimization, Reproduction, Fibonacci sequence, Labor division

Tzu-Yu Hung, Alysha Kutuzyan, Katarina Simanic, Steven Yang 

A Mathematical Approach to Barnacle and Limpet Adaptations 

Barnacles, limpets, mathematical patterns, modelling, game theory, and evolutionary pressure.

 Laetitia Abdallah, Mohammad Jibran Budullah, Lucas Chan, Ralph El Hajj 

Ant Algorithms for Collective Intelligence 

Algorithms, foraging, pheromones, cooperative transport, eusocial, clustering

Jung Hao Cau, Luciana Chambilla Pastor, Fatima Janneh, Ya Lin  

A Mathematical Analysis of Hydra

Turing pattern, regeneration, microbial symbiosis or holobiont, feedback, topology and toplogical defects

Jessica Coulson, Magnus Duffy, Ruolin Hu, Shilong Zheng