When available, undergraduate positions are advertised at the University Research Apprenticeship Program.

Potential graduate students: Please contact Prof. Patek by email before submitting an application to join this laboratory.

Principal Investigator:

Sheila Patek, Ph.D.

Publications

Curriculum Vitae

patek "at" berkeley "dot" edu
lab phone: 510-643-2549

Current Lab Members:

Erica Staaterman <estaaterman "at" berkeley "dot" edu>
Laboratory Manager

Thomas Claverie, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research focus: Mantis shrimp functional morphology and evolution
<tclaverie "at" berkeley "dot" edu>

Jennifer Taylor, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research focus: Crab behavior and biomechanics

Maya deVries
Graduate Student
Research focus: Comparative functional morphology and biomechanics of the mantis shrimp's strike

Eliot Chan
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Samantha Lu
Undergraduate Research Apprentice

Marco Mendoza
Undergraduate Researcher

Jason Ng
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Michael Rosario
Undergraduate Researcher

Marcus Wong
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Visitors:

Marcus Roper, Ph.D.
Miller Postdoctoral Fellow (Wilkening lab)
Research focus: Fungal spore mechanics

Lab Alumni (let us know what you're up to!):

Joe Baio, UCB Chemical Engineering class of 2004
Current position: graduate student, University of Washington

Lauren Shipp, UCB Integrative Biology class of 2006
Current position: graduate student, Scripps Institute of Oceanography

Jack Tseng, UCB Integrative Biology class of 2005
Current position: graduate student, University of Southern California

William Van Trump, UCB Engineering class of 2005
Current position: graduate student, University of California Irvine

Travis Zack, UCB Integrative Biology and Physics class of 2008
Current position: graduate student, Harvard University