YU ZENG – 曾昱

Yu Zeng, Ph.D.

Biomechanist and evolutionary biologist based in Chapman University at Orange, California.

[my first name 昱 (Yu) is pronounced “ü”, see here and this YouTube video]

Email: dreavoniz{at}berkeley.edu
(yzeng7 at ucmerced is no longer working)

Research

* Biomechanics and evolution of flight and other aerial behaviors, such as parachuting, righting and gliding, especially in small insects

* Biomechanics and evolution of high-performance systems, including musculoskeletal systems, feeding apparatus, novel biomaterials, etc.

* Biomechanics and evolution at cellular level, including collective mobility, intracellular morphogenesis, etc.

* Study systems: arthropods (especially stick insects), anuran tadpoles, Caulobacter bacterium, hagfish slime and slime gland, plethodontid salamanders, etc.

Education

* Ph.D., Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Co-advisors: Robert Dudley & David Wake (new site)

* B.A., Biological Sciences, Sichuan University – University of Washington

Reviewed for
* eLife
* Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution
* Integrative and Comparative Biology
* Integrative Zoology
* iScience
* Journal of Experimental Biology
* Journal of Insect Sciences
* Journal of Comparative Physiology
* PeerJ
* Physical Review Letters
* PLOS ONE
* Scientific Reports
* Zoomorphology

Updates

Mar-2023, epidermal threads & the origin of hagfish slime
Jul-2022, biology of stalk-eyed fruit flies and interview
Jun-2022, stick insect flight morphology
Sep-2021, extreme allometry in hagfish thread cells
Aug-2021, minimal framework for describing living systems
Mar-2021, tadpole behavior
Oct-2020, a novel motility in bacterial aggregates
July-2020, canopy parkour in dispersing stick insects
May-2020, wing evolution in stick insects
Mar-2018, presenting at APS March Meeting
Feb-2018, omnidirectional strike in flat spiders
Jan-2018, 1st Place of the Luis Alvarez Award for Best Experimental Research, APS Far West Meeting 2017

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