Publications — Saad Bhamla

PI: Saad Bhamla

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  • Chakrabortty, T., & Bhamla, S. (2024). Controlling noisy herds. ArXiv.org. https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06912
  • Pankaj Rohilla, Johnathan Nathaniel O’Neil, Bose, C., Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Choi, D., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2024). Epineuston vortex recapture enhances thrust in tiny water skaters. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.17.599397
  • Kumar, S., Tiwari, I., Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Dillman, A. R., He, D., Hu, Y., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2024). Reversible kink instability drives ultrafast jumping in nematodes and soft robots. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.07.598012
  • Varun Sendilraj, Gulati, M., Standeven, J., & Saad Bhamla. (2022). Plate-Q: A Frugal Microplate-Reader for Bacterial Signal Quantification. BioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.11.495768
  • Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, Goldman, D. I., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2020). Collective protection and transport in entangled biological and robotic active matter. BioRxiv, 2020.05.25.114736. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.25.114736
2024
  • Tuazon, H., David, S., Ma, K., & Saad Bhamla. Leeches Predate on Fast-Escaping and Entangling Blackworms by Spiral Entombment. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae118 (2024)
  • Priya Soneji, Challita, E. J., & Saad Bhamla. Trackoscope: A low-cost, open, autonomous tracking microscope for long-term observations of microscale organisms. PLoS ONE, 19(7), e0306700–e0306700. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306700 (2024)
  • McDonald, C. L., Alcalde, G. T., Jones, T. C., Ana, R., Yap, S., & Saad Bhamla. Wax “Tails” Enable Planthopper Nymphs to Self-Right Midair and Land on Their Feet. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae104 (2024)
  • O’Neil, J. N., Kai Lauren Yung, Gaetano Difini, Walker, H., & Saad Bhamla. Tiny Amphibious Insects use Tripod Gait for Traversal on Land, Water, and Duckweed. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae078 (2024)
  • O’Neil, J. N., Kai Lauren Yung, Gaetano Difini, Pankaj Rohilla, & Saad Bhamla. Limb loss and specialized leg dynamics in tiny water-walking insects. Integrative and Comparative Biology. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icae077 (2024)
  • Gupta, A., Yu, J., Challita, E. J., Standeven, J., & M. Saad Bhamla. OpenCell: A low-cost, open-source, 3-in-1 device for DNA extraction. PLoS ONE, 19(5), e0298857–e0298857. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0298857 (2024)
  • Challita, E. J., Pankaj Rohilla, & M. Saad Bhamla. Fluid Ejections in Nature. Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-100722-113148 (2024)
  • Kim, B., Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., M Saad Bhamla, & Koh, J. Passive Aerial Righting and Safe Landing of a Small Bio-Inspired Jumping Robot. https://doi.org/10.1109/robosoft60065.2024.10521985 (2024)
  • Challita, E. J., & M. Saad Bhamla. Unifying fluidic excretion across life from cicadas to elephants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(13). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2317878121 (2024)
  • Lu, C., Pankaj Rohilla, Felner, E. I., Gaurav Byagathvalli, Erkan Azizoglu, M. Saad Bhamla, & Prausnitz, M. R. Tolerability of a piezoelectric microneedle electroporator in human subjects. Bioengineering & Translational Medicine, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/btm2.10662 (2024)
  • Meissner, C., M. Saad Bhamla, Emrick, T., & Crosby, A. J. (2024). Fabricating mesoscale polymer ribbons with tunable mechanical properties via evaporative deposition and dewetting. Soft Matter, 20(27), 5324–5330. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00368c
2023
  • Tuazon, H., Nguyen, C., Kaufman, E., Tiwari, I., Bermudez, J., Chudasama, D., Peleg, O., & M Saad Bhamla. (2023). Collecting–Gathering Biophysics of the Blackworm Lumbriculus variegatus. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 63(6), 1474–1484. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad080
  • Udita Ringania, Moon, R. J., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2023). Effect of fines percentage on ultrasonic dewatering of cellulose nanofibrils. Cellulose, 30(16), 10125–10138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-023-05522-z
  • Schulz, A. K., Shriver, C., Stathatos, S., Seleb, B., Weigel, E. G., Chang, Y.-H., M. Saad Bhamla, Hu, D. L., & Mendelson, J. R. (2023). Conservation tools: the next generation of engineering–biology collaborations. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 20(205). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0232
  • Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Jusufi, A., Brown, C. E., Zeng, Y., Kumar, S., Siddall, R., Kim, B., Challita, E. J., Pavlik, Z., Priess, M., Umhofer, T., Koh, J.-S., Socha, J. J., Dudley, R., & M Saad Bhamla. (2023). Air-to-land transitions: from wingless animals and plant seeds to shuttlecocks and bio-inspired robots. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 18(5), 051001–051001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/acdb1c
  • Floyd, C., Molines, A. T., Lei, X., Honts, J. E., Chang, F., Mary Williard Elting, Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan, Dinner, A. R., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2023). A unified model for the dynamics of ATP-independent ultrafast contraction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(25). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217737120
  • Parmar, B., Mwanaisha Phiri, Jailos, L., Kachapila, R., Saleb, B., Wakisa Mulwafu, Vinay Manchaiah, & M. Saad Bhamla. (2023). Comparing outcomes of ultra-low-cost hearing aids to programmable, refurbished hearing aids for adults with high frequency hearing loss in Malawi: a feasibility study. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2023.1153056
  • 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
  • Patil, V. P., Tuazon, H., Kaufman, E., Tuhin Chakrabortty, Qin, D., Dunkel, J., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2023). Ultrafast reversible self-assembly of living tangled matter. Science, 380(6643), 392–398. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade7759
  • Challita, E. J., Sehgal, P., Krugner, R., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2023). Droplet superpropulsion in an energetically constrained insect. Nature Communications, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36376-5
  • Deblais, A., Prathyusha, K. R., Sinaasappel, R., Tuazon, H., Tiwari, I., Patil, V. P., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2023). Worm blobs as entangled living polymers: from topological active matter to flexible soft robot collectives. Soft Matter, 19(37), 7057–7069. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sm00542a
  • Savoie, W., Tuazon, H., Tiwari, I., M. Saad Bhamla, & Goldman, D. I. (2023). Amorphous entangled active matter. Soft Matter, 19(10), 1952–1965. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm01573k
2022
  • Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Challita, E. J., Kim, B., Ko, H., Gwon, M., Koh, J.-S., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2022). Directional takeoff, aerial righting, and adhesion landing of semiaquatic springtails. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(46). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2211283119
  • Tuazon, H., Kaufman, E., Goldman, D. I., & M Saad Bhamla. (2022). Oxygenation-Controlled Collective Dynamics in Aquatic Worm Blobs. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 62(4), 890–896. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icac089
  • Udita Ringania, Harrison, J., Moon, R. J., & M. Saad Bhamla. (2022). Dewatering of cellulose nanofibrils using ultrasound. Cellulose, 29(10), 5575–5591. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-022-04626-2
  • Kim, D., Gwon, M., Kim, B., Ortega-Jimenez, V. M., Han, S., Kang, D., M. Saad Bhamla, & Koh, J.-S. (2022). Design of a Biologically Inspired Water-Walking Robot Powered by Artificial Muscle. Micromachines, 13(4), 627–627. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi13040627
  • Zhang, X., Jacobeen, S., Zhang, Q., Khau, B., Yunker, P., H. Jerry Qi, Saad Bhamla, & Russo, P. S. (2022). Reshaping sub-millimetre bubbles from spheres to tori. Soft Matter, 18(25), 4660–4666. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2sm00173j
  • Cook, A., Pandhigunta, K., Acevedo, M. A., Walker, A., Didcock, R. L., Castro, J. T., O’Neill, D., Acharya, R., Saad, B. M., Philip, A., & Ilton, M. (2022). A Tunable, Simplified Model for Biological Latch Mediated Spring Actuated Systems. Integrative Organismal Biology, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obac032
2021
  • Acharya, R., Challita, Elio J, Ilton, M., & Saad Bhamla, M. (2021). The ultrafast snap of a finger is mediated by skin friction. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 18(184). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0672
  • Xia, D., Jin, R., Byagathvalli, G., Yu, H., Ye, L., Lu, C.-Y., Saad, B. M., Yang, C., & Prausnitz, M. R. (2021). An ultra-low-cost electroporator with microneedle electrodes (ePatch) for SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(45), e2110817118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2110817118
  • Byagathvalli, G., Challita, E. J., & Bhamla, M. S. (2021). Frugal Science Powered by Curiosity. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 60(44), 15874–15884. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.1c02868
  • Nguyen, C., Ozkan-Aydin, Y., Tuazon, H., Goldman, D. I., Saad, B. M., & Peleg, O. (2021). Emergent Collective Locomotion in an Active Polymer Model of Entangled Worm Blobs. Frontiers in Physics, 9, 734499. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2021.734499
  • Burgener K;Bhamla MS. (2021). A polymer-based technique to remove pollutants from soft contact lenses. Contact Lens & Anterior Eye : The Journal of the British Contact Lens Association, 44(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clae.2020.05.004
  • Challita, Elio J, Symone, A., Han, S. I., Blackledge, T. A., Coddington, J. A., Jung, S., & Saad, B. M. (2021). Slingshot spiders build tensed, underdamped webs for ultrafast launches and speedy halts. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 207(2), 205–217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-021-01475-5
  • Ozkan-Aydin, Y., Goldman, D. I., & Saad, B. M. (2021). Collective dynamics in entangled worm and robot blobs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(6), e2010542118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010542118
2020
  • Sinha, S., Irani, U. D., Vinaya Manchaiah, & M. Saad Bhamla. (2020). LoCHAid: An ultra-low-cost hearing aid for age-related hearing loss. PLOS ONE, 15(9), e0238922. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.023892
  •  Byagathvalli G., Sinha S., Zhang Y, Styczynski M, Standeven J., Bhamla, M. S. ElectroPen: An ultra-low–cost, electricity-free, portable electroporator. PLOS Biology, 18(1): e3000589 (2020)
2019
  • Mathijssen A., Culver J. Bhamla, M. S., Prakash M.  Collective intercellular communication through ultra-fast hydrodynamic trigger waves. Nature 571, 560–564  (2019)
  • Byagathvalli G., Pomerantz A.F., Sinha S., Standeven J., Bhamla, M. S. A 3D-printed hand-powered centrifuge for molecular biology. PLOS Biology, 17(5):e3000251 (2019)
2018
  • Ilton, M., Bhamla, M. S., Ma, X., Cox, S., Fitchett, L., Koh, J. S., Krishnamurthy, D., Kuo, C.- Y., Temel, F. Z., Crosby, A. J., Prakash, M., Sutton, G. P., Wood, R. J., Azizi, E., Bergbreiter, S.,  and Patek, S. N. The Principles of Cascading Power Limits in Small, Fast Biological and Engineering Systems. Science, 360.6387, eaao1082 (2018)

Awards

  • NSF Career for Organismal Physics (2020): https://chbe.gatech.edu/news/2020/01/four-chbe-professors-win-prestigious-nsf-career-awards

2024

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