I recently published in Scientific Reports a new paper entitled “A biomechanical approach to understand the ecomorphological relationship between primate mandibles and diet” which deals with the fact that in primates, hard food eaters have stiffer mandibles when compared to those that rely on softer diets. This is a research that I did with my…
The first week of August I attended the 15th Annual Meeting of the Association of European Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP) in Munich (Germany). I presented my recent join work about biomechanics of the platyrrhine talus with my colleague Thomas Püschel (University of Manchester) where we were studied the biomechanical behaviour of the talus in 40 extant platyrrhine…
This April I attended the American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting in New Orleans (USA) where I presented some of my last works in primates morphology and biomechanics and I had the ooportunity to be in the Science March. The works I or my colleagues presented were: Marcé-Nogué, J. et al. “Hard food for stiffer jaws:…
A new paper has been published in Journal of Anatomy studying the paleoecology of extinct amphibian Temnospondyli. The study aims to expand upon the paleoecological interpretations of these animals using 3D Finite Element Analyses (FEA) because the paleoecology of metoposaurids is controversial; they have been historically considered passive, bottom-dwelling animals, waiting for prey on the…
If you want to learn Finite Element Analysis in the context of biomechanics in life science, a new Transmitting Science course is launched for the next July in Catalonia: FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS APPLIED TO LIFE SCIENCES In the course, there is an introduction to the Finite Element in order to model biological structures and understand how they…
When we are solving a model using Finite Element Analysis, the results are obtained via a distribution map. These internal distributions of the forces ̶ called stress ̶ appear in the inner regions of the models due to the action of external forces. To model how different forces act on a biological structure, as a bone for…
A new study published in Scientific Reports journal analyze the biomechanics of the skull in Temnospondyls – a group of extinct amphibians of huge sizes- to elucidate the role of these animals in the ecosystems about 250 million years ago. The results show an ecological position different from the extant salamanders but also different from…
Summer is the season of most of the conferences and I presented my work in two of them. At the end of June I attended the International Conference of Vertebrate Morphology (ICVM) in Washington and the next week I attended the XIV Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists in Haarlem (the Netherlands).…
L’investigador de l’Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Josep Fortuny, juntament amb Jordi Marcé-Nogué, investigador de la Universitat d’Hamburg, han estat convidats durant la primera setmana d’abril a la Guilin University of Electronic Technology (ciutat de la Regió Autònoma de Guangxi) a impartir xerrades i treballar conjuntament amb l’equip liderat pel Dr. Zupeng Zhou en l’àmbit…
The Meeting of the german Working Group in Vertebrate Paleontology has been held during the weekend of the 12th and 13th of March in the nice fortress Burg Lichtenberg. The castle was built around 1200 and has a length of 425m and is the biggest castle ruin in Germany. It is located near Thallichtenberg in the district of Kusel…
This January I have been teaching the theoretical background of classical biomechanics in the workshop “Introduction to Functional Morphology and Biomechanics” (4th Ed) in Catalonia (Premises of Sabadell of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP)). My colleagues Dr. Richard Fariña, Dr. Pere Ibáñez-Gimeno and Dr. Soledad de Esteban-Trivingno are showing simple models based on the basic principles of…
This is my last FEA Analysis made during this week before Christmas.
