Bioengineering Hyperbook

Department of Bioengineering


Category: Arthropods (Arachnids, Crustaceans, Insects)

The Mechanics of Worker Ants 

Ants, Biomechanics, Aggregation

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

The Mathematical Organisation of Social Wasps 

Nest structure, Population dynamics, Resource optimization, Game theory, Dominance, Reproduction

Eliot Azar, Andrew Habelrih, Malak Zakaria

A Mathematical Approach to Modelling Termite Mound Organization and Population Dynamics 

Termites, Mound morphogenesis, Tunneling, Food transportation, Population modelling, Stigmergy

Rosalie Beaudin, Naia Kim, Mattias Sucher, Lucy Wiggers

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 

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  

Deciphering Daphnia Dynamics: A Mathematical Odyssey into Aquatic Ecosystems

Trophic interactions or food web, parthenogenesis, game theory, movement and migration, phenotypic plasticity, predator-prey

Eva Otell, Iris Sun, Marwan Sobh, Xinying Wang, Rémi Ouellette

Daphnia’s Chemical Interactions: Varying Conditions Require Varying Responses

Predator-prey, environmental stressors, bioindicator, adaptation, bioremediation, kairomone, diel vertical migration

Eva Otell, Iris Sun, Marwan Sobh, Rémi Ouellete, Xinying Wang

Phenotypic Adaptation of Daphnia Throughout Evolution

Compound eye, swimming, adaptation, defense mechanisms, Stokes' law

Eva Otell, Iris Sun, Marwan Sobh, Rémi Ouellette, Xinying Wang

Copepods Through the Lens of Chemistry

Pigmentation, symbiotic, chemoreception, bioluminescence, crustacean, toxin

Johanna Turton, Melodi Rousset, Philippe Mercier, Tanjin Sultana