Graduate Student


University of California, Berkeley
Department of Integrative Biology
3060 Valley of Life Sciences Building #5130
Berkeley, California 94720-3140

Lab phone: 510-643-5183
Email: andrew_saintsing [at] berkeley.edu

Research:
My research focuses on understanding the energetic cost of terrestrial locomotion. Previous studies have shown that the cost of transport (a quantity that expresses the energy required to move a unit mass over a unit distance) decreases as animals increase in mass. However, there is also significant variation in the cost of transport of animals of the same mass. I want to understand what leads to these observed differences. To address this question, I hope to develop a better understanding of the relationship between the metabolic energy an organism expends and the mechanical work it produces.