Lindsay Waldrop

Assistant Professor

Biological Sciences, Schmid College of Science and Technology

Education:: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Bachelor of Science
University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. Lindsay Waldrop received her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from Univ. of California, Berkeley with a focus on experimental biological fluid dynamics and completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Univ. of California, Merced in mathematics. Her research group focuses on the evolution of fluid-structure interactions in biological systems, including odor capture by sensory hair arrays, detection of target odors by trained dogs, and the fluid dynamics of early heart development.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: L. Burnett, N. Hebdon, P. Stevens, M. Moljo, bf L.D. Waldrop , L. DeGreeff. 2024. Dog sniffing biomechanic responses in an odor detection test of odorants with differing physical properties. Journal of Animal Science 102: skae353. DOI: 10.1093/jas/skae353.; D. Mejia, L. Burnett, N. Hebdon, P. Stevens, A. Shiber, C. Cranston, L. DeGreeff, L.D. Waldrop. 2024. Physical properties of odorants affect behavior of trained detection dogs during close-quarters searches. Scientific Reports 14: 4843.; L. He, J.W. Cain, L.D. Waldrop. 2020. Modeling action potential reversals in tunicate hearts. Physical Review E 102(6): 062421.; L.D. Waldrop, J.A. Rader. 2020. Melding Modeling and Morphology: A call for collaboration to address difficult questions about the evolution of form and function. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(5): 1188–1192; L.D. Waldrop, Y. He, T.L. Hedrick, J.A. Rader. 2020. Functional morphology of gliding flight I. Modeling reveals distinct performance landscapes based on soaring strategies. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(5): 1283–1296.; J.A. Rader, T.L. Hedrick, Y. He, L.D. Waldrop. 2020. Functional morphology of gliding flight II. Morphology follows predictions of gliding performance. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(5): 1297–1308.; L.D. Waldrop, Y. He, T.N. Peterman, L.A. Miller. 2020. Uncertainty quantification as a method to infer physical constraints on parameters of pumping by valveless, tubular hearts. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17: 20200232.; Tracy L. Mandel, De Zhen Zhou, Lindsay Waldrop, Maxime Theillard, Dustin Kleckner, and Shilpa Khatri Phys. Rev. Fluids 5, 124803.; L.D. Waldrop, Y. He, S. Khatri. 2018. What can computational modeling tell us about the diversity of odor-capture structures in the Pancrustacea? Journal of Chemical Ecology 44(12): 1084- 1100.

Lindsay Waldrop

Biography

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

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