Marianne Alleyne
Assistant Professor
Primary Affiliation
Neurotechnology for Memory and CognitionAffiliations
Status Part-time Faculty
Home Department of Entomology
Phone 333-2910
Email vanlaarh@illinois.edu
Address 4315 Beckman Institute, 405 North Mathews Avenue
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Biography
Marianne Alleyne is an assistant professor of entomology with an affiliation in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering. She also holds an appointment at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Her research group, the Alleyne Bioinspiration Collaborative, or ABCLab, uses a variety of insects as inspiration for the novel design of materials and mechanical systems.
Education
B.A., integrative biology, University of California, Berkeley, 1991
M.S., entomology, University of California, Riverside, 1995
Ph.D., entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
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Research
Research Interests:
Insect physiology
Physiology
Bioinspiration
Bioinspired design
The ABC Lab is broadly interested in what structures and systems in nature (specifically those found in arthropods) can help us more efficiently design novel technologies. We rely on fundamental scientific data to inform the bioinspired design process. Our focus is on multi-functionality of insect wings (cicadas, flies, dragonflies, beetles) and insect associated structures (leafhopper brochosomes). We also study the clicking mechanism of click beetles. The ABClab collaborates with various MechSE faculty, including Drs. Alison Dunn, Nenad Miljkovic and Aimy Wissa.
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2024
- Brochosome size variation and its influence on leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) wing wettability Bello, E. & Alleyne, M., Jan 1 2024, In: Journal of Insect Science. 24, 1, ieae003.
2023
- A grasshopper-inspired glider: a study of gliding efficiency and wing morphology Lee, K. J. P., Alleyne, M. and Wissa, A., 2023, 2023 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, CCTA 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 657-662 6 p. (2023 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, CCTA 2023).
- Electron Tomography and Machine Learning for Understanding the Highly Ordered Structure of Leafhopper Brochosomes Burks, G. R., Yao, L., Kalutantirige, F. C., Gray, K. J., Bello, E., Rajagopalan, S., Bialik, S. B., Barrick, J. E., Alleyne, M., Chen, Q. and Schroeder, C. M., Jan 9 2023, In: Biomacromolecules. 24, 1, p. 190-200 11 p.
- Insect-scale jumping robots enabled by a dynamic buckling cascade Wang, Y., Wang, Q., Liu, M., Qin, Y., Cheng, L., Bolmin, O., Alleyne, M., Wissa, A., Baughman, R. H., Vella, D. and Tawfick, S., Jan 31 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120, 5, e2210651120.
- Launching engineered prototypes to better understand the factors that influence click beetle jump capacity Zhang, L., Mathur, T., Wissa, A. and Alleyne, M., 2023, 2023 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, CCTA 2023. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 681-686 6 p. (2023 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, CCTA 2023).
- Staying Dry and Clean: An Insect’s Guide to Hydrophobicity Bello, E., Chen, Y. and Alleyne, M., Jan 2023, In: Insects. 14, 1, 42.
2022
- Addressing Diverse Motivations to Enable Bioinspired Design Barley, W. C., Ruge-Jones, L., Wissa, A., Suarez, A. V. and Alleyne, M., Nov 2022, In: Integrative and comparative biology. 62, 5, p. 1192-1201 10 p.
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