[All-postdocs] Biology Seminar this Thursday: Dr. Kakani Katija, MBARI

[Margot McKlveen]

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*Biology Department Virtual Seminar*

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Thursday, April 1 at Noon

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86894206484 
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Dr. Kakani Katija

Research and Development, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute


Developing imaging technologies to search for, discover, and understand 
biology in the deep sea

The deep waters of the ocean (below the euphotic zone) is one of the 
largest ecosystems on our planet, yet remains one of the least explored. 
Little-known marine organisms that inhabit these waters have developed 
life strategies that contribute to their evolutionary success, and may 
inspire engineering solutions for societally relevant challenges. 
Although significant advances in underwater vehicle technologies have 
improved access to this region, small-scale, behavioral observations of 
individual animals continue to be challenging. Here we present a number 
of imaging developments from MBARI’s Bioinspiration Lab that quantifies 
biomechanics and behavior of organisms in the deep sea. Two 4000 
m-rated, ROV-based imaging systems, DeepPIV and EyeRIS, can be used to 
quantify time-resolved particle fields and structures in 2D and 3D, 
respectively. These instruments can be applied to a wide range of 
science use cases, both in the water column and on the benthos. We 
demonstrate how use of these tools can lead to surprising findings about 
the structure and function of giant larvacean (genus Bathochordaeus) 
mucus houses, and how they may serve as models for human health, 
filtration, etc. Future technologies that will enable study of 
organismal ecomechanics in the deep sea will also be discussed.

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