Publications — Simon Sponberg

PI: Simon Sponberg

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  • Zach Mobille, Usama Bin Sikandar, Sponberg, S., & Choi, H. (2024). Temporal resolution of spike coding in feedforward networks with signal convergence and divergence. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.08.602598
  • Barredo, E., Yang, H., John Paul Currea, Sondhi, Y., Ravindra Palavalli-Nettimi, Sponberg, S., Vahid Tarokh, & Theobald, J. (2024). Body size and light environment modulate flight speed and saccadic behavior in free flying Drosophila melanogaster. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.08.602594
  • Tune, T., & Sponberg, S. (2024). Nanometer scale difference in myofilament lattice structure of muscle alter muscle function in a spatially explicit model. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19443
  • Lynch, J., Wold, E. S., Gau, J., Sponberg, S., & Gravish, N. (2024). Energetic and Control Trade-offs in Spring-Wing Systems. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03398
  • Usama Bin Sikandar, Aiello, B. R., & Sponberg, S. (2024). Body oscillations reduce the aerodynamic power requirement of wild silkmoth flight. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.07.602433
  • Yang, H., Marko Angjelichinoski, Wu, S., Putney, J., Sponberg, S., & Vahid Tarokh. (2023). Cross-subject Mapping of Neural Activity with Restricted Boltzmann Machines. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.14.536854
  • Sharma, V. P., & Sponberg, S. (2023). Context dependent multisensory integration: Mechanosensation depends on luminance for robust performance. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.29.560224
  • Wood, L., Putney, J., & Sponberg, S. (2023). Flight power muscles have a coordinated, causal role in hawkmoth pitch turns. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.27.559785
  • Putney, J., Angjelichinoski, M., Ravier, R., Ferrari, S., Tarokh, V., & Sponberg, S. (2021). Consistent coordination patterns provide near perfect behavior decoding in a comprehensive motor program for insect flight. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.13.452211
2024
  • Treidel, L. A., Deem, K. D., Salcedo, M. K., Dickinson, M. H., Bruce, H. S., Darveau, C.-A., Dickerson, B. H., Ellers, O., Glass, J. R., Gordon, C. M., Harrison, J. F., Hedrick, T. L., Johnson, M. G., Lebenzon, J. E., Marden, J. H., Kristjan Niitepõld, Sane, S. P., Sponberg, S., Stav Talal, & Williams, C. M. (2024). Insect Flight: State of the Field and Future Directions. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae106
  • Burden, S. A., Libby, T., Jayaram, K., Sponberg, S., & Donelan, J. M. (2024). Why animals can outrun robots. Science Robotics, 9(89). https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adi9754
2023
  • Gau, J., Lynch, J., Aiello, B., Wold, E., Gravish, N., & Sponberg, S. (2023). Bridging two insect flight modes in evolution, physiology and robophysics. Nature, 622(7984), 767–774. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06606-3
  • Usama Bin Sikandar, Choi, H., Putney, J., Yang, H., Ferrari, S., & Sponberg, S. (2023). Predicting visually-modulated precisely-timed spikes across a coordinated and comprehensive motor program. https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn54540.2023.10191280
  • Putney, J., Niebur, T., Wood, L., Conn, R., & Sponberg, S. (2023). An information theoretic method to resolve millisecond-scale spike timing precision in a comprehensive motor program. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(6), e1011170–e1011170. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011170
  • Wold, E. S., Lynch, J., Gravish, N., & Sponberg, S. (2023). Structural damping renders the hawkmoth exoskeleton mechanically insensitive to non-sinusoidal deformations. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 20(202). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0141
  • Aiello, B. R., M. Saad Bhamla, Gau, J., John, Bomar, K., Shashwati da Cunha, Fu, H., Laws, J., Hajime Minoguchi, Manognya Sripathi, Washington, K., Wong, G., Shubin, N. H., Sponberg, S., & Stewart, T. A. (2023). The origin of blinking in both mudskippers and tetrapods is linked to life on land. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(18). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2220404120
  • Sponberg, S., Abbott, E., & Sawicki, G. S. (2023). Perturbing the muscle work loop paradigm to unravel the neuromechanics of unsteady locomotion. Journal of Experimental Biology, 226(7). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243561
  • Yang, H., Putney, J., Usama Bin Sikandar, Zhu, P., Sponberg, S., & Ferrari, S. (2022). A Relative Spike-Timing Approach to Kernel-Based Decoding Demonstrated for Insect Flight Experiments. 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn55064.2022.9892352
2022
  • Yang, H., Putney, J., Usama Bin Sikandar, Zhu, P., Sponberg, S., & Ferrari, S. (2022). A Relative Spike-Timing Approach to Kernel-Based Decoding Demonstrated for Insect Flight Experiments. 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). https://doi.org/10.1109/ijcnn55064.2022.9892352
  • Gau, J., Wold, E. S., Lynch, J., Gravish, N., & Sponberg, S. (2022). The hawkmoth wingbeat is not at resonance. Biology Letters, 18(5). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2022.0063
2021
  • Aiello, B. R., Sikandar, U. B., Minoguchi, H., Bhinderwala, B., Hamilton, C. A., Kawahara, A. Y., & Sponberg, S. (2021). The evolution of two distinct strategies of moth flight. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(185). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0632
  • Aiello, B. R., Stanchak, K. E., Weber, A. I., Deora, T., Sponberg, S., & Brunton, B. W. (2021). Spatial distribution of campaniform sensilla mechanosensors on wings: form, function, and phylogeny. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 48, 8–17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2021.06.002
  • Cass, J. A., C. David Williams, Irving, T. C., Lauga, E., Malingen, S., Daniel, T. L., & Sponberg, S. N. (2021). A mechanism for sarcomere breathing: volume change and advective flow within the myofilament lattice. Biophysical Journal, 120(18), 4079–4090. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2021.08.006
  • Aiello, B. R., Tan, M., Sikandar, U. B., Alvey, A. J., Bhinderwala, B., Kimball, K. C., Barber, J. R., Hamilton, C. A., Kawahara, A. Y., & Sponberg, S. (2021). Adaptive shifts underlie the divergence in wing morphology in bombycoid moths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 288(1956), 20210677. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0677
  • Gau, J., Gemilere, R., Lds-Vip, Lynch, J., Gravish, N., & Sponberg, S. (2021). Rapid frequency modulation in a resonant system: aerial perturbation recovery in hawkmoths. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 288(1951), 20210352. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0352
  • Lynch, J., Gau, J., Sponberg, S., & Gravish, N. (2021). Dimensional analysis of spring-wing systems reveals performance metrics for resonant flapping-wing flight. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(175). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0888
  • Kihlström, K., Aiello, B., Warrant, E., Sponberg, S., & Stöckl, A. (2021). Wing damage affects flight kinematics but not flower tracking performance in hummingbird hawkmoths. Journal of Experimental Biology, 224(4). https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.236240
2020
  • Dickerson, B. H., Fox, J. L., & Sponberg, S. (2020). Functional diversity from generic encoding in insect campaniform sensilla. Current Opinion in Physiology, 19, 194–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2020.11.004
  • Travis Carver Tune, Ma, W., Irving, T., & Sponberg, S. (2020). Nanometer-scale structure differences in the myofilament lattice spacing of two cockroach leg muscles correspond to their different functions. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.212829
  • Libby, T., Chidinma Chukwueke, & Sponberg, S. (2019). History-dependent perturbation response in limb muscle. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.199018
2019
  • Putney, J., Conn, R., & Sponberg, S. (2019). Precise timing is ubiquitous, consistent, and coordinated across a comprehensive, spike-resolved flight motor program. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(52), 26951–26960. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907513116
  • Gau, J., Gravish, N., & Sponberg, S. (2019). Indirect actuation reduces flight power requirements inManduca sextavia elastic energy exchange. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16(161), 20190543. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0543
  • Neveln, I. D., Amoolya Tirumalai, & Sponberg, S. (2019). Information-based centralization of locomotion in animals and robots. Nature Communications, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11613-y
2018
  • Matthews, M., & Sponberg, S. (2018). Hawkmoth flight in the unsteady wakes of flowers. Journal of Experimental Biology. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.179259
  • Sober, S. J., Sponberg, S., Ilya Nemenman, & Ting, L. H. (2018). Millisecond Spike Timing Codes for Motor Control. Trends in Neurosciences, 41(10), 644–648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2018.08.010
2017
  • Stöckl, A. L., Kihlström, K., Chandler, S., & Sponberg, S. (2017). Comparative system identification of flower tracking performance in three hawkmoth species reveals adaptations for dim light vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, 372(1717), 20160078. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0078
  • Sponberg, S. (2017). The emergent physics of animal locomotion. Physics Today, 70(9), 34–40. https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.3.3691
2016
  • Roth, E., Hall, R. W., Daniel, T. L., & Sponberg, S. (2016). Integration of parallel mechanosensory and visual pathways resolved through sensory conflict. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(45), 12832–12837. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1522419113
2015
  • Sponberg, S.; Dyhr, J. P.; Hall, R. W.; Daniel, T. L. “Luminance-dependent visual processing enables moth flight in low light.” Science. 348:1245-1248. 2015.
  • Mongeau, J. M.; Sponberg, S.; Miller, J. P.; Full, R. J. “Sensory processing within antenna enables rapid implementation of feedback control for high-speed running maneuvers.” J. Exp. Biology. 18(15):2344–54.
  • Sponberg, S.; Daniel, T. L.; Fairhall, A. L. “Dual dimensionality reduction reveals independent incoding of motor features in a muscle synergy for insect flight control
.” PLOS Comp. Biology. 11(4):e1004168-23.
  • Cowan, N. J., Ankarali, M. M., Dyhr, J. P., Madhav, M. S., Roth, E., Sefati, S., Sponberg, S.; Stamper, S. A.; Fortune, E. S.; Daniel, T. L. “Feedback Control as a Framework for Understanding Tradeoffs in Biology.” Int. Comp. Biol. 54(2): 223-237.
  • Roth, E.*; Sponberg, S.*; Cowan, N. J.  “A comparative approach to closed-loop computation.” Curr Opin Neurobio, 25: 54-62 (* denotes equal contributions).

Awards

  • Young Investigator Award, International Society for Neuroethology (ISN) — Sponberg 2014
  • PURA Undergraduate Research Award — Rachel Barker — 2016
  • PURA Undergraduate Research Award — Natalie Murray — 2016

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