New paper in Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Check out our new paper on the biophysics of thread skein unraveling in hagfish slime. This work was done in collaboration with Randy Ewoldt and Sameh Tawfick at U Illinois Urbana-Champaign. First author Tanver Hossain led the project over the finish line and Dakota...

New paper in Nature Communications

Check out the new paper from our wonderful colleagues at U Illinois Urbana-Champaign on a method for printing very small fibers that could be used to mimic hagfish slime. A spiral structure produced using embedded 3D printing. Image courtesy of M. Tanver...

Hagfishing on the R/V Yellowfin

The Fudge Lab spent a day on the water with Coyote Peterson and the good folks from Brave Wilderness on the R/V Yellowfin on October 4. Check out  the hagfish and slime themed episode on Coyote’s YouTube channel called “Yuck! What Creature Made this...

New paper in JEB on hagfish burrowing.

The Fudge Lab recently published the first paper on hagfish burrowing biomechanics in The Journal of Experimental Biology. This was a collaboration among lots of students and postdocs and got its start during a field course at the Shoals Marine Lab.