[All-postdocs] [biodep] Bioseminar - Patrick Green

[Laela Sayigh]

If anyone is interested in joining Patrick for lunch after the seminar, 
please let me know!
Thanks,
Laela

On 7/21/2025 8:31 AM, Ana Velez wrote:
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> Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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> *Biology Department Seminar*
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> Thursday, July 24, 2025 – 12:00 pm
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> Redfield Auditorium
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> *Patrick Green *
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> Assistant Professor, Brown University
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> **
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> *Contests Beyond Behavior: Using Mantis Shrimp to Gain Integrative 
> Insights to Animal Fights*
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> Contests over limited and essential resources are crucial to animal 
> survival and reproduction and exert a strong selective pressure on 
> diverse animal traits. In the past 50 years, most research in contests 
> has focused on the behaviors animals use while fighting, while 
> comparatively less work has studied the physical (e.g., biomechanical) 
> mechanisms of these behaviors, or their ecological and evolutionary 
> consequences. Many species of mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda: Crustacea) 
> use spring-powered appendages to deliver bullet-like strikes onto each 
> other’s armored tailplates during contests over territory. The extreme 
> nature of competition in this system makes it ideal for testing not 
> only the behavioral strategies used when fighting, but also probing 
> the biomechanical basis of these behaviors, and how these contests 
> affect ecology and evolution. I will describe my work in this system, 
> asking questions that range from how animals with deadly weapons use 
> ritualized strikes to avoid injury, to how impact-resistant armor evolves.
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> For questions, Contact:
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> *Ana Maria Velez*
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> Biology Pre-Award Administrative Associate
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> Ph: (+1)(508)289-2334
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