I am interested in the way in which the bodies of different species are shaped by the biomechanical consequences of their divergent life histories. Bats are ideal for this system of study because while all >1,200 species share a body plan that permits flight, there are striking differences among them in almost every other aspect of behaviour and ecology.
Below is a list of my scientific publications. You can download my curriculum vitae here: 
Riskin, D. K., Willis, D. J., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Hedrick, T. L., Kostandov, M., Chen, J., Laidlaw, D. H., Breuer, K. S., and Swartz, S. M. (in press). Quantifying the complexity of bat wing kinematics. Journal of Theoretical Biology 254, 604-615.
Williams, W. O., Riskin, D. K., and Mott, K. M. (2008). Ultrasonic sound measurement as an indicator of acute pain in laboratory mice. Journal of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Scientists 47, 8-10.
Riskin, D. K., Parsons, S., Schutt, W. A. Jr., Carter, G. G., and Hermanson, J. W. (2006). Terrestrial locomotion of the New Zealand Short-tailed Bat Mystacina tuberculata and the Common Vampire Bat Desmodus rotundus. Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 1725-1736.
Carter, G. G., and Riskin, D. K. (2006). Mystacina tuberculata. Mammalian Species 790, 1-8.
Riskin, D. K., Bertram, J. E. A. and Hermanson, J. W. (2005). Testing the hindlimb-strength hypothesis: Non-aerial locomotion by Chiroptera is not constrained by the dimensions of the femur or tibia. Journal of Experimental Biology 208, 1309-1319.
Riskin, D. K. and Hermanson, J. W. (2005). Independent evolution of running in vampire bats. Nature 434, 292.
Riskin, D. K. and Fenton, M. B. (2001). Sticking ability in Spix's disk-winged bat, Thyroptera tricolor (Microchiroptera: Thyropteridae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 79, 2261-2267.
Riskin, D. K. (2001). Pipistrellus bodenheimeri. Mammalian Species 651, 1-3.
Fenton, M. B., Bernard, E., Bouchard, S., Hollis, L., Johnston, D. S., Lausen, C. L., Ratcliffe, J. M., Riskin, D. K., Taylor, J. R. and Zigouris, J. (2001). The bat fauna of Lamanai, Belize: roosts and trophic roles. Journal of Tropical Ecology 17, 511-524.
Fenton, M. B., Vonhof, M. J., Bouchard, S., Gill, S. A., Johnston, D. S., Reid, F. A., Riskin, D. K., Standing, K. L., Taylor, J. R. and Wagner, R. (2000). Roosts used by Sturnira lilium (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Belize. Biotropica 32, 729-733.
Riskin, D. K. and Pybus, M. J. (1998). The use of exposed diurnal roosts in Alberta by the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76, 767-770.
Waldman, R. M., Song, A., Riskin, D. K., Swartz, S. M., and Breuer, K. S. (in press) Wing structure and the aerodynamic basis of flight in bats. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal AIAA paper 2008-3716.
Willis, D. J., Kostandov, M., Riskin, D. K., Peraire, J., Laidlaw, D. H., Swartz, S. M., and Breuer, K. S. 2007. Modeling the flight of a bat (science visualization feature). Science 317, 1860.
Rypien, K. L., Anderson, J., Andras, J., Clark, R. W., Gerrish, G. A., Mandel, J. T., Nydam, M. L. and Riskin, D. K. (2007). Correspondence: Students unite to create state of the planet course. Nature 447, 775.
Swartz, S. M., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Riskin, D. K., Song, A., Tian, X., Willis, D. J. & Breuer, K. S. (2007) Wing structure and the aerodynamic basis of flight in bats. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal 42, 1-10.