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Victor M. Ortega

The Ornithopterus Lab focuses on organismal dynamics, from flamingos and insects to helicopter seeds and nematodes. We investigate how they move through challenging environments such as rain, turbulence, or dust devils, as well as the trade-offs produced by capillary and electrostatic forces on animal interactions.


Research in Science News

Science Magazine published a note on our recent study about how small animal fliers can pass through waterfalls. …read more

August 19, 2020October 27, 2020

Defying Thermal Convection

UC-Davis published a note highlighting our recent study on Drosophila flight in convective flows…read more

October 24, 2018October 26, 2020

BSR Magazine

The Berkeley Science Review recently published an article highlighting our research done on hummingbirds at the Animal Flight Laboratory…read more

June 15, 2018June 21, 2018

Moving on rough waters

We found that water striders locomotion is degraded inversely with age while they move over wavy and bubbly water surfaces …read more

August 4, 2017August 5, 2017

In the National Geographic

The N. Geographic is highlighting amazing pictures of our research on hummingbirds…read more

July 7, 2017August 5, 2017

Wings as Autogyros

Our paper entitled “On the autorotation of animal wings” has been highlighted on the cover of Interface …read more

January 11, 2017January 19, 2017

Thrips’ aquatic secrets

We discovered that millimetric-sized insects called thrips, can climb the meniscus by arching their water-repellent bodies …read more

September 14, 2016September 14, 2016

La Jornada Newspaper

Jornada

The Mexican newspaper “La Jornada” published a note on our research and the viability to set-up an Animal flight laboratory in Mexico… …read more

July 19, 2016July 19, 2016

Brief visit to Mexico

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I want to thank students and professors from CICESE (Ensenada), INECOL (Xalapa), BUAP (Puebla) and CHAPINGO (México). …read more

June 29, 2016July 5, 2016

Cal Day 2016

The Animal Flight Laboratory presented a science exhibition on animal flight during the Cal day 2016 …read more

April 23, 2016September 14, 2016

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