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Jake Socha, Ph.D.

Jake Socha, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Engineering Science and Mechanics

 

Virginia Tech
332 Norris Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061

 

Email: jjsocha@vt.edu
Lab: http://www.esm.vt.edu/~jjsocha




EDUCATION:

 

B.S., Physics and Biology, Duke University, 1994
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2002



RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

Organismal biomechanics
Gliding flight in vertebrates
Fluid flow in insects, focused issues of breathing, feeding, and circulation (including heart flow)
Low Reynolds number pumps in small animals
Synchrotron x-ray imaging
Microtomography



RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

 

Westneat, M.W., J.J. Socha, and W.-K. Lee. 2008. Advances in biological structure, function and physiology using synchrotron x-ray imaging.  Annual Review of Physiology 70: 119-142.
Kaiser, A., C.J. Klok, J.J. Socha, W.-K. Lee, M.C. Quinlan, J.F. Harrison. 2007.  Increase in tracheal investment with beetle size supports hypothesis of oxygen limitation on insect gigantism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104 (32): 13198-13203.
Socha, J.J., M.W. Westneat, J.F. Harrison, J.S. Waters, and W.-K. Lee. 2007. Real-time phase-contrast x-ray imaging: a new technique for the study of animal form and function.  BMC Biology 5:6.
Socha, J.J. 2006. Becoming airborne without wings: the kinematics of takeoff in a flying snake, Chrysopelea paradisi.  Journal of Experimental Biology 209 (17): 3358-3369.
Socha, J.J., M. LaBarbera, and T. O’Dempsey. 2005. A three-dimensional kinematic analysis of gliding in a flying snake, Chrysopelea paradisi. Journal of Experimental Biology 208 (10): 1817-1833.
Socha, J.J. and M. LaBarbera. 2005. Effects of size and behavior on aerial performance of two species of flying snakes (Chrysopelea). Journal of Experimental Biology 208 (10): 1835-1847.
Socha, J.J. 2002.  Gliding flight in the paradise tree snake.  Nature 418: 603-604.
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> Gabler, Clay
> Gatenholm, Paul
> Ge, Yaorong
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> Kraft, Robert
> Lee, John
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> Lockhart, Thurmon
> Love, Brian
> Madigan, Michael
> Munley, Michael
> Nussbaum, Maury
> Puri, Ishwar
> Rajagopalan, Padma
> Robertson, John
> Rylander, Christopher
> Rylander, Nichole
> Saul, Justin
> Socha, Jake
> Sparks, Jessica
> Stitzel, Joel
> Vlachos, Pavlos
> Wang, Ge
> Wang, Yue
> Wicks, Alfred
> Wyatt, Chris
> Xuan, Jason

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