James P. Townsend

Field Testing of Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish to Demonstrate Enhanced Swimming Speeds

Nicole W. Xu, James P. Townsend, John H. Costello, 2020, bioRxiv.

A mesopelagic ctenophore representing a new family, with notes on family-level taxonomy in Ctenophora: Vampyroctena delmarvensis gen. nov. sp. nov. (Vampyroctenidae, fam. nov.)

James P. Townsend, Alison M. Sweeney, A. Sweeney, 2020, Marine Biodiversity.

Catecholic Compounds in Ctenophore Colloblast and Nerve Net Proteins Suggest a Structural Role for DOPA-Like Molecules in an Early-Diverging Animal Lineage

James P. Townsend, A. Sweeney, 2019, The Biological Bulletin.

TIAMMAt: Leveraging Biodiversity to Revise Protein Domain Models, Evidence from Innate Immunity

James P. Townsend, Kyle T. David, K. Halanych, 2021, Molecular biology and evolution.

Quantifying the feeding behavior and trophic impact of a widespread oceanic ctenophore

James P. Townsend, J. Costello, S. Colin, 2023, Scientific Reports.

Cool your jets: biological jet propulsion in marine invertebrates.

James P. Townsend, J. Dabiri, J. Costello, 2021, The Journal of experimental biology.

Developing Biohybrid Robotic Jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) for Free-swimming Tests in the Laboratory and in the Field.

James P. Townsend, J. Dabiri, J. Costello, 2021, Bio-protocol.