Our research spans biomechanics of all scales and tissues. Although faculty expertise may include overlapping research areas, each is listed once in the following tables.
Joint/Systems Biomechanics
| Faculty |
Topics |
| Jenni Buckley |
- Orthopaedic biomechanics
- Biomechanical testing
- Mechanical evaluation of medical devices
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| David Burris |
- Materials tribology
- Low-wear tribological nanocomposites
- Insitu micro-tribometry for osteoarthritis detection
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| Dawn Elliott |
- Orthopaedic tissue mechanics
- Spine segment torsional mechanics and how they change with age and injury
- Tears in knee meniscus and how they propagate
- Micromechanics of tendon and how they change with repetitive loading
|
| Abhyudai (Abhi) Singh |
- Computational systems biology
- Modeling HIV gene expression and regulation
- Phage induced lysis of bacterial cells
- Quantifying viral fitness in single-cells
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Human Movement and Rehabilitation
| Faculty |
Topics |
| Elisa Arch |
- Optimization of the design of Prosthetic and Orthotic devices.
- Adaptive capacity of the human musculoskeletal system during movement tasks.
- interaction between the musculoskeletal system and prosthetic and orthotic devices.
- 3D printing applications for biomechanical and rehabilitation engineering.
|
| Panagiotis Artemiadis |
- Rehabilitation robotics
- Intelligent prosthetics
- Human-robot interaction
- Biomechanics and modeling of gait
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| Thomas Buchanan |
- Knee mechanics after ACL injury
- Knee stability and osteoarthritis
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| Joshua Cashaback |
- Neuromechanics
- Human Reinforcement Learning
- Human-Human Interactions
|
| Jeremy Crenshaw |
- Fall-recovery training for individuals with chronic stroke
- Evaluation of postural control in children with cerebral palsy
- Effects of backward walking training on balance, mobility, strength and fall-recovery in the older adult population
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| Jocelyn Hafer |
- Understanding the effects of aging and knee osteoarthritis on gait
- Wearable sensor methodology
- Using wearable sensors to assess gait biomechanics in real-world settings
- Role of muscle power and fatigability in joint health and mobility
|
| Jill Higginson |
- Neuromuscular biomechanics
- Design of interventions for post-stroke gait
- Subject-specific musculoskeletal modeling
- Interactions between cognitive and motor function
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| Ioannis Poulakakis |
- Bio-inspired robotic systems
- Control tools for legged locomotion
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| Darcy Reisman |
- Stroke rehabilitation and motor learning
- Biomechanics of stroke locomotion
- Motor learning after stroke
- Development and implementation of tools to accurately measure real-world walking after stroke
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| Fabrizio Sergi |
- Robot-assisted motor learning and rehabilitation
- Human-robot interaction
- Wearable robotics
|
| Lynn Snyder-Mackler |
- ACL-deficient knee
- Total knee arthroplasty
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Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms
| Faculty |
Topics |
| Sambeeta (Sam) Das |
- Microrobots
- Cellular differentiation
- Drug delivery
- Biomaterials
|
| Thomas Epps |
- Drug delivery and gene therapy
- Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanocarriers for efficient and tunable anti-cancer drug delivery and gene therapy
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| Jason Gleghorn |
- Mechanics of morphogenesis
- 3D traction force microscopy (TFM) of engineered contractile microfabricated tubular airways
- Cellular kinematics of blood vessel assembly
- Analysis of the mechanical forces that drive spatial patterns of cell proliferation during kidney development
|
| X. Lucas Lu |
- Cartilage biomechanics and tissue engineering
- Repair of cartilage lesion in temporomandibular joint with mesenchymal stem cells
- Prevention of osteoarthritis after joint injuries
|
| David Martin |
- Active polymers for bionic medical devices
- In-situ optical and electron microscopy
- Molecular and computational modeling
- Quantitative comparisons with experimental data
|
| Anja Nohe |
- Stem cell differentiation
- Development of new treatments for bone diseases
- Bone development
- Development of new imaging techniques
|
| John Slater |
- Biomimetic materials for cell & tissue engineering
- Controlling cytoskeletal tension of cells
- Quantification of cell generated traction forces in 3D engineered microenvironments
- Quantification of the metastatic potential of varying cancer cell lines in a microfluidic tumor model
|
| Millicent Sullivan |
- Biomaterials for drug and gene delivery
- Engineering DNA-modified collagens for gene delivery during wound repair
- Development of light-responsive nanoparticles for spatiotemporally-controlled gene modulation
- Intracellular gene targeting for improved growth factor expression in healing bone tissues
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Tissue Biomechanics
| Faculty |
Topics |
| Emily Day |
- Quantitative biomechanics
- Cancer detection and treatment
- Particles for treatment of bone diseases
|
| Xinqiao Jia |
- Tissue engineering
- Fabrication and characterization of a flow-induced vocal fold bioreactor
- Mechanical characterization of the engineered tissues at phonation frequencies
- Mechanical characterization of the engineered tissues at nanometer length scales
|
| Curtis Johnson |
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Elastography
- Brain Tissue Mechanics
- Neuroimaging
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| Christopher Price |
- Musculoskeletal biology
- Preventative therapy for post-traumatic osteoarthritis
- Micro-computer tomography of bone
- Emergent network properties of osteocytes
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| Karin Silbernagel |
- Tendon health and recovery
- Mechanical characterization of tendon tissue
- Mathematical modeling and medical imaging
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| Liyun Wang |
- Bone mechanobiology
- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of osteocyte mechanosensing
- Roles of perlecans in spine functions
- Endothelial glycocalyx shedding in diabetes
- Characterization and testing of musculoskeletal tissues with disorders
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