Bioengineering Hyperbook

Department of Bioengineering


Category: Corals, Jellies and Sponges

A Chemical Composition to Make Them Cower: A Dive Into the Structure and Protective Adaptations of Sea Sponges 

Silica biomineralization, Secondary metabolites, Plasticity, Sponge skeleton

Olivia Ghiaur, Camille Heaney, Chris Hu, Vadim Zamaruyev

Small Bodies, Big Potential: Chemically Bonding Salps and their Environment 

Salps; Tunic; Biogeochemical cycling; Innate immunology; Sensory cells; Carbon cycling

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

Hydrozoans and Bryozoans: Chemical Engineers of the Sea 

Biomineralization, Bioluminescence, Differential gene expression, Stem cells, Phenotypic plasticity, Venom, pPasticity

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

The Chemistry Behind the Coral Colony 

Biomineralization, Aragonite, Photosynthesis, Symbiosis, Zooxanthellae, Corals

Maureen Awad, Evan Chow, Luke Gailloux, Rylee McKay, Adrian Yehia

Sea Sponge Supercapabilities: An Analysis of the Physical Properties of Porifera 

Spicules; Biomimetics; Filterfeeding; Lamination; Passive ventilation; Optical properties; Fluid dynamics; Bioluminescence; Holdfasts; Porifera

Olivia Ghiaur, Camille Heaney, Chris Hu, Vadim Zamaruyev

Propulsion Through the Life of Salps 

Salps; Jet propulsion; Filter feeding; Asynchronous swimming; Epithelial signalling; Carbon cycling; Vortex rings; Chain aggregation; Ocean carbon sequestration

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

The Physical Basis of Coral Reefs 

Maureen Awad, Evan Chow, Luke Gailloux, Rylee McKay, Adrian Yehia

Made to Model: Mathematical Representation of Sea Sponges 

Modeling, Porifera growth, Biosilicification

Camille Heaney, Chris Hu, Vadim Zamaruyev

The Mathematics Behind Coral Reef Structure, Growth, and Survival 

Coral population dynamics, Bilateral symmetry, Biradial symmetry, Symmetry, Reaction-diffusion models, Paleozoic corals, Fractal geometry, Hyperbolic geometry, Conservation

Maureen Awad, Evan Chow, Luke Gailloux, Rylee McKay, Adrian Yehia

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

A Chemical Analysis of Hydra

Regeneration mechanisms, neurotoxins, innate immunity, morphogenesis, antimicrobial peptides, toll-like receptors or bacterial recognition

Jessica Coulson, Magnus Duffy, Ruolin Hu, Shilong Zheng

Coral Polyps and the Chemical Symphony of Survival

Coral polyps, biomineralization, crystals, calcification, symbiotic relationships, cellular respiration, coral bleaching

Michael Beyrouthy, Cris Izzi, Claudio Petroni, Alex Tsiskakis