Publications
Po T, Carrillo A, McKee A, and McHenry M.J. The mechanical design of tube feet in a juvenile sea star( Leptasterias sp.). Submitted for review.
Po T, Korob L., McHenry M.J. The central and collective directional control in sea star tube feet. In prep.
McHenry C, Po T, McHenry M.J. The sensory role of tube feet in geotaxis of sea stars. In prep.
Selected Presentations
Invited Speaker for 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics ROBOSOFT (2024)
Conference Website:
https://softroboticsconference.org/
Workshop Website: https://soft.robotics.umich.edu/workshop/
Presenter at Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) (2024)
Best Student Presentation
Wenner Strong Inference Award Winner (Society-wide award)
"The Directional Control of Phototactic Behavior in Sea Stars"
The award was featured on the SICB Website in 2024.
Presenter at Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) (2023)
Best Student Presentation
Mimi Koehl and Stephen Wainwright Award Winner (Division of Biomechanics award)
This presentation was also featured on the front page of SICB website in 2023.
"The Mechanics and Collective Control of Sea Star Locomotion"
Presenter at Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB+) (2023)
"The Mechanics and Collective Control of Sea Star locomotion"
Presenter at Society of Experimental Biology (SEB) Early Career Researcher Symposium (2022).
"The Collective Mechanics in Sea Star locomotion"
Guest Lecturer for UCI Human Physiology (2022).
"Maximizing Force in Human Muscle"
Presenter at Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB+) (2022)
"The role of body mechanics in the locomotion of sea stars"
Presenter at Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) (2020)
"The Neuromechanics of Sea Star Locomotion"
Guest Lecturer for UCI Extreme Physiology (2019)
"Kidney"
Presenter at the Basic Research Challenge Event for the Office of Naval Research
(May 2019)
Presenter at the Basic Research Challenge Event for the Office of Naval Research (January 2019)
Presenter at the Northern California Computational Biology Symposium (NCCB) at University of California Santa Cruz. (2018)
"Computational Analysis for the rational design of anti-amyloid beta antibodies"