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Sheila N Patek
Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor
Appointments and Affiliations
- Mrs. Alexander Hehmeyer Professor
- Professor of Biology
Contact Information
- Office Location: 014 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: (919) 613-8306
- Email Address: snp2@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. Duke University, 2001
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Guggenheim Award. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2015
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2013
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2012
- Christopher Clavius, S.J. Award . Sigma Xi, St. Joseph’s University. 2009
- George A Bartholomew Award. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. 2008
- Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. 2008
- Brilliant 10 Award. Popular Science Magazine. 2004
Courses Taught
- BIOLOGY 329L: Principles of Animal Physiology
- BIOLOGY 429S: How Organisms Move
In the News
- Five New Bass Professors Named for Excellence in Teaching and Research (Apr 23, 2020)
- Leaping Larvae! How Do They Even Do That Without Legs? (Aug 8, 2019)
- Why a Robot Can't Yet Outjump a Flea (Apr 26, 2018)
- Mantis Shrimp Size Each Other Up Before Ceding a Fight (Jan 17, 2018)
- Why Do Research for the Sake of Knowing? (May 31, 2016)
- Sheila Patek: Why research for the pure sake of knowing is enough (May 26, 2016 | PBS NewsHour)
- Here’s what happened when a group of scientists went to confront their congressional tormentors (Apr 15, 2016 | The Huffington Post)
- Professor Patek Goes to Washington, Talks Up Research (Apr 15, 2016)
- The Benefits of 'Strange Science' (Apr 5, 2016 | Duke Magazine)
- Is Mantis Shrimp Research a Waste of Money? How 'Wastebook' Misses the Big Picture (Dec 7, 2015 | Duke Research Blog)
- Mantis shrimps avoid deadly fights by pummeling each other (Sep 23, 2015 | The Atlantic)
- Fisticuffs Among the Mantis Shrimp (Sep 23, 2015 | Duke Research Blog)
- The ant that blasts itself out of danger with its face (Aug 7, 2015 | Wired)
- Sheila Patek: Ant-Man's real-life rivals (Jul 17, 2015 | National Geographic)
- How mantis shrimps spar (Jun 18, 2015 | Science News)
- How Mantis Shrimp Evolved Many Shapes with Same Powerful Punch (Feb 27, 2015)
Representative Publications
- Divi, S; Ma, X; Ilton, M; St Pierre, R; Eslami, B; Patek, SN; Bergbreiter, S, Latch-based control of energy output in spring actuated systems., Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, vol 17 no. 168 (2020) [10.1098/rsif.2020.0070] [abs].
- Harrison, JS; Porter, ML; Patek, SN, Scaling and development of elastic mechanisms: the tiny strikes of larval mantis shrimp, Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol 60 (2020), pp. E97-E97 [abs].
- Munoz, MM; Anderson, PSL; Hu, Y; Patek, SN; Camarillo, H, How Predictable and Correlated are Patterns of Form-Function Evolution?, Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol 60 (2020), pp. E168-E168 [abs].
- Patek, SN, Plenary Lecture - Impact and discovery: extreme movement in an interdisciplinary and political world, Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol 60 (2020), pp. E392-E392 [abs].
- Dinh, JP; Azza, J; Patek, SN, Assessing Your Opponent: Snapping Shrimp Use Indirect Cues to Settle Ritualized Contests, Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol 60 (2020), pp. E58-E58 [abs].