Jonathan Dyhr

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Jonathan Dyhr

Associate Professor of Biology

Biology

Office Hours

(In-person/Virtual): Monday 3:30pm-5pm, Tuesday 4pm-5pm, Wednesday 3:30pm-5pm and Thursday 12:15pm-1:15pm

Biography

I graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in Physics and Neuroscience in 2003. I continued my studies at the University of Arizona, where I graduated with a PhD in Neuroscience (minor in Applied Mathematics) in 2009. Subsequently, I worked as a postdoc at the University of Washington studying flight biomechanics, feedback control, and sensorimotor processing in hawkmoths. In 2014, I accepted a position as an Assistant Professor at Northwest University in Kirkland, WA where I taught a variety of Biology classes. I joined the Faculty of MSU Denver in Fall 2018.

Research Interests

    I am interested in understanding how animals collect, process and use sensory information to move through the environment. My research fuses techniques from neuroscience, engineering, physics and computational neuroscience to reverse engineer the strategies biological systems use to control movement.

Teaching Interests

    Neurobiology, Biomechanics, Motor Control, Physiology (among many)

Education

PhD in Neuroscience

University of Arizona

BA in Physics and Neuroscience

Johns Hopkins University

Published Works

    Dyhr, J. . . , Dyhr, J. . Example Class Activities Involving Skill Development and Scaffolding. , Roberts, J., Johnson, L., Dyhr, J. (2024). APS Publications Podcast - Cracking the Code: Using Educational Gaming for High-Level Thinking in Physiology Education APS Publications Podcast [Online]. [date unknown]. https://apspublicationspodcast.podbean.com/e/cracking-the-code-using-educational-gaming-for-high-level-thinking-in-physiology-education. APS Publications Podcast, Roberts, J., Johnson, A. L., Dyhr, P. J. (2024). Cracking the Code: Using Education Gaming for High-Level Thinking in Physiology Education. American Physiological Society, 48(2), 260-269. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00154.2023. Dyhr, J. (2022). . Wikimedia Commons, Northcutt, D. B., Dyhr, J., Higgins, M. C. (2017). An insect-inspired model for visual binding I: learning objects and their characteristics. Biological cybernetics, 111(2), 185--206. . Sponberg, S., Dyhr, J., Hall, W. R., Daniel, L. T. (2015). Luminance-dependent visual processing enables moth flight in low light. Science, 348(6240), 1245--1248. . Cowan, J. N., Ankarali, M. M., Dyhr, J., Madhav, S. M., Roth, E., Sefati, S., Sponberg, S., Stamper, A. S., Fortune, S. E., Daniel, L. T. (2014). Feedback control as a framework for understanding tradeoffs in biology. American Zoologist, 54(2), 223--237. . Dyhr, J., Morgansen, A. K., Daniel, L. T., Cowan, J. N. (2013). Flexible strategies for flight control: an active role for the abdomen. Journal of Experimental Biology, 216(9), 1523--1536. . Hinson, T. B., Rombokas, E., Dyhr, J., Daniel, L. T., Morgansen, A. K. (2013). Sensing from control: airframe deformation for simultaneous actuation and state estimation. , Dyhr, J., Cowan, J. N., Colmenares, J. D., Morgansen, A. K., Daniel, L. T. (2012). Autostabilizing airframe articulation: Animal inspired air vehicle control. , Demir, A., Ankarali, M. M., Dyhr, J., Morgansen, K., Daniel, T., Cowan, N. (2012). Inertial redirection of thrust forces for flight stabilization. (pp 239--246). . Dyhr, J., Higgins, M. C. (2010). Non-directional motion detectors can be used to mimic optic flow dependent behaviors. Biological cybernetics, 103(6), 433--446. . Dyhr, J., Higgins, M. C. (2010). The spatial frequency tuning of optic-flow-dependent behaviors in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens. Journal of Experimental Biology, 213(10), 1643--1650. . Dyhr, J. (2009). Behavioral and Theoretical Evidence that Non-directional Motion Detectors Underlie the Visual Estimation of Speed in Insects.. The University of Arizona..