Brooke E. Flammang Explained

Brooke E. Flammang
Birth Name:Brooke Elizabeth Flammang
Birth Place:Bridgeport, Connecticut
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Brooke E. Flammang is an American biologist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.[1] She specializes in functional morphology, biomechanics, and bioinspired technology of fishes.[2] Flammang is a discoverer of the radialis muscle in shark tails. She also studies the adhesive disc of the remora, and the walking cavefish, Cryptotora thamicola. Her work has been profiled by major news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, BBC Radio 5, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic Wild. She was named one of the "best shark scientists to follow" by Scientific American in 2014.

Education

Flammang received her M.S. in marine science from Moss Landing Marine Laboratories at California State University Monterey Bay where she was in the Gregor Cailliet lab studying the distribution and reproductive ecology of deepsea catsharks from the family Scyliorhinidae of the Eastern Pacific.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in biology and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, where she worked with George V. Lauder on a variety of projects, such as fluid dynamics and volumetric imaging of fish locomotion, bioinspired robotics, and bluegill sunfish and shark functional morphology and locomotion.[3] [4] [5]

Academic career

Flammang was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (2010–2013) and a faculty member in the Division of Continuing Education (2009–2014) at Harvard University. She subsequently was an assistant professor at Lasell College's Department of Science and Mathematics (2013–2014) as well as a visiting scholar at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University (2013–2014). She has served as assistant professor in the Federated Department of Biology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (2014–2021) and currently serving as associate professor (2021–Present).[1] She also holds appointments as a Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology Associate of Ichthyology[6] and as a graduate faculty member at Rutgers University.

Research

Flammang discovered the radialis muscle in shark tails while at the Friday Harbor Laboratories for a summer course with Adam Summers, Beth Brainerd and Karel Liem.[7] Her current research focuses on the remora adhesive disc, from describing its function and morphology to understanding the hydrodynamics and mechanism of its attachment.[8] [9] [10] She also works on the walking cavefish, Cryptotora thamicola, to understand the unique morphological adaptations found in walking fishes.[11] [12] Her work has been profiled by the New York Times,[11] the Washington Post,[13] Wired,[14] You're the Expert radio show,[15] BBC Radio 5, CBC Radio,[16] Discovery Channel,[17] and National Geographic Wild[18] She was named one of the "best shark scientists to follow" by Scientific American in 2014.[19]

She has made advances to the use of 3D Particle Image Velocimetry for understanding the fluid dynamics of locomotion in fish.[20] Her lab focuses on functional morphology and comparative biomechanics, along with bioinspired robotics, the evolution of tetrapods, and the fluid dynamics of swimming.[2]

Most cited papers

Awards

Flammang is the principal investigator for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rules of Life RAISE grant[25] to address the evolution of terrestrial locomotion.[26] She has been recognized by the Journal of Experimental Biology as an Early Career Researcher of note, and was awarded the Dorothy M. Skinner Award in 2013 by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. In 2017, she was awarded the Carl Gans Award by the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.[27] She was the 2019 recipient of the Bioinspiration and Biomimetics Steven Vogel Young Investigator Award.[28] as well as the 2019 recipient of the NJIT CSLA Rising Star Research Award.[29]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brooke Flammang-lockyer - Biological Sciences. Federated Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).. 20 May 2019.
  2. Web site: Flammang Lab. New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). 20 May 2019.
  3. Web site: Brooke Flammang - Google Scholar Citations. Google Scholar. 20 May 2019.
  4. Web site: fluid loco lab: publications. New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). 20 May 2019.
  5. Web site: Fish Biomechanics & Hydrodynamics (Including Shark Skin Function). People.fas.harvard.edu. 20 May 2019.
  6. Web site: MCZ Associates. Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University . en. 2019-05-31.
  7. Functional morphology of the radialis muscle in shark tails. Brooke E.. Flammang. 1 March 2010. Journal of Morphology. 271. 3 . 340–352 . 10.1002/jmor.10801. 19827156. 7550907.
  8. Functional Morphology of the Remora Adhesive Disc. Brooke. Flammang. 1 April 2015. The FASEB Journal. 29. 1 supplement. 865.9. 10.1096/fasebj.29.1_supplement.865.9. free.
  9. Remora fish suction pad attachment is enhanced by spinule friction. Jason H.. Nadler. Brooke E.. Flammang. Michael. Beckert. 1 November 2015. Journal of Experimental Biology. 218. 22. 3551–3558. 10.1242/jeb.123893. 26417010. 14543035. free.
  10. Theoretical and computational fluid dynamics of an attached remora (Echeneis naucrates). Michael. Beckert. Brooke E.. Flammang. Erik J.. Anderson. Jason H.. Nadler. 1 October 2016. Zoology. 119. 5. 430–438. 10.1016/j.zool.2016.06.004. 27421679.
  11. News: Researchers Find Fish That Walks the Way Land Vertebrates Do. Zimmer. Carl. 2016-03-24. The New York Times. 2019-05-29. en-US. 0362-4331.
  12. Tetrapod-like pelvic girdle in a walking cavefish. Daphne. Soares. Julie Markiewicz. Apinun. Suvarnaraksha. Brooke E.. Flammang. 24 March 2016. Scientific Reports. 6. 23711. 10.1038/srep23711. 27010864. 2016NatSR...623711F. 4806330.
  13. News: This weird little fish can walk up waterfalls. Feltman. Rachel. March 24, 2016. The Washington Post. 31 May 2019.
  14. THE SECRET OF SUPER-FAST SHARK SWIMMING. Pennisi. Elizabeth. Elizabeth Pennisi. 30 November 2011. Wired. 31 May 2019.
  15. Web site: You're the Expert – Sharks and Remoras – 47:42. radiopublic.com. 2019-05-31.
  16. News: Fish with pelvis built for walking discovered in Thailand . 13 July 2019 . CBC News . March 28, 2016.
  17. News: Emspak . Jesse . The Monofin: Will High-Tech Tail Help Phelps Beat a Great White Shark? . 13 July 2019 . Live Science . July 23, 2017.
  18. News: Tennenhouse . Erica . These freaky fish use their fins to 'walk' across the seafloor . https://web.archive.org/web/20181011111321/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/10/flat-fish-walk-millipede-animals-news/ . dead . October 11, 2018 . 13 July 2019 . National Geographic Wild . October 9, 2018.
  19. Web site: The Best Shark Biologists and Conservationists to Follow During Shark Week. Shiffman. David. August 8, 2014. Scientific American. en. 2019-05-29.
  20. Web site: Particle Image Velocimetry Systems for Quantitative Flow Measurements of Bio-Locomotion. Tsi.com. 20 May 2019.
  21. A robotic fish caudal fin: effects of stiffness and motor program on locomotor performance. George V.. Lauder. Brooke E.. Flammang. James L.. Tangorra. Christopher J.. Esposito. 1 January 2012. Journal of Experimental Biology. 215. 1. 56–67. 10.1242/jeb.062711. 22162853. 1759189. free.
  22. Web site: Google Scholar. Scholar.google.com. 20 May 2019.
  23. Volumetric imaging of fish locomotion. Flammang Brooke E.. Lauder George V.. Troolin Daniel R.. Strand Tyson E.. 23 October 2011. Biology Letters. 7. 5. 695–698. 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0282. 21508026. 3169073.
  24. Functional morphology of the radialis muscle in shark tails. Brooke E.. Flammang. 20 May 2019. Journal of Morphology. 271. 3. 340–352. 10.1002/jmor.10801. 19827156. 7550907.
  25. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award#1839915 - RoL: FELS: RAISE: A Phylogenomically-Based Bioinspired Robotic Model Approach to Addressing the Evolution of Terrestrial Locomotion. National Science Foundation. 2019-05-29.
  26. Web site: First Steps: Scientists launch evolutionary study to explore the origins of fish that walk. Louisiana State University. 20 May 2019.
  27. Early-career researchers: an interview with Brooke Flammang . The Journal of Experimental Biology . 10 January 2018 . 221 . 1 . jeb174318 . 10.1242/jeb.174318 . 29321290 . 31466630 . free .
  28. Web site: Steven Vogel Young Investigator Award - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics - IOPscience. iopscience.iop.org. 2019-10-31.
  29. Web site: NJIT CSLA Annual Awards. csla.njit.edu. 2021-10-27.

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