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SUMMARY:Wings inform:  mechanosensing in insect flight control. - Tom Dani
 el (U. Washington\, USA)
DTSTART:20160706T120000Z
DTEND:20160706T130000Z
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CONTACT:John Mollon
DESCRIPTION:Insect wings are richly adorned with mechanosensory structures
  that encode the bending during flapping.  Halteres are derived from wings
  and are similarly equipped a rich array of strain sensors.  Like wings\, 
 they are flapped and\, with body rotations\, experience Coriolis forces.  
 Evolution suggests that wings themselves may serve a similar function.  Th
 at is they experience Coriolis forces as they flap and the body rotates an
 d deformations arising from those forces could provide inertial dynamic in
 formation to the nervous system.  This talk reviews recent behavioral\, me
 chanical and neural evidence that wings may serve a dual role as both actu
 ators and sensors.
LOCATION:Kenneth Craik Room\, Craik-Marshall Building\, Downing Site
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