Dr. Fudge was interviewed about hagfishes by Kathryn Knight for JEB’s Extraordinary Creatures column. You can read the article here: https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/229/2/jeb252071/370381
We are recruiting a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the biophysics of hagfish defensive slime deployment. Apply here:https://tinyurl.com/4p937dn5
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...
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...
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...
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Dr. Fudge was interviewed about hagfish biology on the The Deep-Sea Podcast by Dr. Thomas Linley.
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.
Check out Jennifer Ouelette’s piece on our hagfish burrowing paper in JEB.
Check out the latest paper from the Fudge Lab on how hagfish slime clogs gills. This project was started at the University of Guelph by postdoc Atsuko Negishi and undergrad Andre Hupe, and involved a collaboration with Randy Ewoldt and his student Gaurav Chaudhary....
