Media & contact

I am passionate about sharing my work in biomechanics and evolution with a broader audience.

If you’re a media worker, researcher, or educator, feel free to reach out for interviews, media collaborations, consulting or speaking engagements.

Media feature

• Orchid mantis gliding with petal-shaped leg lobes – Science Magazine / Phys.org

• Unique biology of stalk-eyed fruit flies – Entomology Today / Science News

• Hagfish slime orginates from skin – eLife Magazine

• Hagfish Slime Cells Tailored to Deter Predation – The Scientist / Newswise / SYFY / Ars Technica

• The fastest legged maneuver on land by flat spiders. - Guinness World Records / National Geographic / Smithsonian Magazine / Science Daily / Atlas Obscura / Phys.org

• Incredible aerial righting capabilities in wingless insects – Live Science News

Public speaking and outreach

• 2024	Entomology Society, University of South Florida, FL

• 2022	Department of Biological Sciences, San José State University, CA

• 2022	Science Forum, Schmid College for Science and Technology, Chapman University, CA

• 2017	CalTeach Summer Institute for teachers, UC Merced, CA

• 2015	Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, China

• 2014	East Bay Science Cafe, Berkeley, CA

• 2013	The Lawrence Hall of Science

• 2012	Conservatory of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA

Contact information

zeng @ berkeley.edu
yuzeng @ usf.edu