Check out the latest
@AmSocBiomech
Newsletter with a lot of focus on
#ASB2024
! Many thanks to our Newletter Editor
@ProfCaraLewis
for all her hard work to compile this newsletter!
In 2011, ASB created the status of Fellow to recognize professional achievement & service of the top members of the Society & to encourage continued service to the Society in a leadership role.
Our 2023 Fellows:
@Troy_BiomechLab
, Matt McCullough, Jill Higginson &
@Ferris_vball
A huge thank you to Program Chair Ross Miller
@rosshm16
and his team for putting together a fantastic program with a broad-range of topics covered at
#ASB2023
this year in a variety of formats! There were 677 presentations including posters, podiums and thematic posters!
Join us in celebrating the
#ASB2023
awardees: Gregory Sawicki, Georgia Tech
@gregory_sawicki
is the Founders Awardee, Robin Queen, Virginia Tech
@rmqueen_VT
is the Pytel Awardee and Karl Zelik, Vanderbilt University
@KarlZelik
is the Goel Awardee.
Our 9th
#ASBFellows
spotlight is Dr. Walter Herzog! He is a past president of ASB,
@ISBiomechanics
AND
@CSBiomech
! While we don't have his Borelli award talk to share, he was one of the first
@BiomechanicsOOM
podcast guests 3yrs ago! Check it out:
Founders Award winner Gregory Sawicki
@gregory_sawicki
giving a rich talk on The PoWeR of curiosity-driven team science ? A 15 year quest to understand how exoskeletons can improve locomotion performance
#ASB2023
Thank you to all the attendees for making
#ASB2023
a big hit! Looking forward to seeing you all at
#ASB2024
in Madison, Wisconsin! Submit an abstract, bring a friend and spread the word!
Looking for some tips on how to best prepare and navigate
#ASB2023
conference? Look no further as our student committee put together this awesome panel on Conference Preparation on 6/21 at 6 PM EST! Please retweet and help spread the word! Link to join:
Looking for a fun way to be engaged with
#biomechanics
during
#COVID
times?
@AuburnEngineers
is offering free virtual interactive lectures on
#biomechanics
to public free of charge. To register, visit
For quick intro, visit:
Join us in celebrating the
#ASB2023
awardees: Ben Binder-Markey, Drexel University
@BBinderMarkey
is the Early Career Achievement awardee. Owen Pearl, Carnegie Mellon University
@CMU_Mech
is the Pre-Doctoral Achievement awardee. Congratulations to both!
Exec board of the American Society of Biomechanics OPPOSES current tax measures that negatively impact scientific progress, including taxing graduate student tuition waivers and infringing upon the tax-exempt status of universities. Read full statement:
Fun fact from
@ana_ebrahimi
: The American Society of
#Biomechanics
held its first annual meeting exactly 45 years ago TODAY. Wondering what they were studying then? Check out the conference proceedings here:
We are pleased to announce the first annual ASB Virtual 5k Fun run/walk/locomote!
Rules: Run, walk, or locomote in any way you wish for a distance of 5 km during the official
@ASB2020_ATL
(August 4-7)
#running
#5k
Election results are in:
Michelle Sabick - President
Kate Saul - Secretary/Membership Chair
Karen Troy - Program Chair elect (2020)
Andrew Vigotsky - Student Rep
Thank you to everyone that voted and everyone that ran in the election.
Pytel award winner Robin Queen
@rmqueen_VT
sharing her mentoring and communication tips during her talk on What to do when one size doesn't fit all at
#ASB2023
From Program Chair Silvia Blemker: This will be an exciting meeting! Schedule is currently being finalized and all presentation formats/times will be announced this week. Look forward to hearing tons of excellent science and also some new features in this year’s ASB program!
As we cruise into mid-October and watch the beautiful Fall weather unfold, make sure you save the date for the Annual
@AmSocBiomech
conference in the beautiful Knoxville, TN between August 8-11, 2023!
Congratulations! The
#ASB2023
Borelli Award winner is Ellen Arruda, University of Michigan. And the 2023 Hay Award winner is Richard Neptune, The University of Texas at Austin
@utmechengr
.
Congratulations to exceptional
#biomechnics
researchers! Looking forward to the Borelli Award and Hay Award presentations at the Annual Meeting this June!
Women and people of color are consistently under-cited in the scientific literature. After NACOB 2022, a sub-committee of the ASB Diversity Committee set out to determine what we as a society could do to help change this. This thread recaps our progress to date! 1/11 🧵
Exciting news! To support diversity and inclusion at the
@ASB2021_ATL
(August 10 – 13), ASB is awarding free registration to individuals from diverse backgrounds. Deadline for submission of ASB Diversity Travel award applications is 05/23/21. Apply now:
Happy Friday! We have great news if you're submitting to
#ASB2023
- the submission deadline has been extended very slightly to March 16. Get your submission in before 23:59 CST March 16 for consideration. No further extensions are expected.
An exciting new study, titled “Gauging force by tapping tendons”, was recently published in the journal Nature. Authors and ASB members, Jack Martin, Darryl Thelen, and others from the University of Wisconsin...
Had a great lunch
@NACoBiomechs
getting together with the current and future ASB Student Chapters! Thanks so much to all of our chapter representatives for their efforts this year 👏👏👏👏👏👏
We've broken an
@AmSocBiomech
record with 271 NEW members this year (and counting)! (Previous record was 239 in 2020).
Here's the breakdown:
208 Students
21 Regular
42 Early Career
Thank you to all our current members who served as sponsors!
#ASB2023
#biomechanics
The ASB executive board is meeting one last time to celebrate an awesome
#asb2018
@MayoClinic
. We hope everyone enjoyed it, and we will see you next year at regional meetings and ISB/ASB 2019 in Calgary.
@ISBiomechanics
“The tenure process can be a difficult journey, but completely worth the effort.”
Prof. Darryl Thelen is professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of...
Hearty congratulations to Ben Binder-Markey
@BBinderMarkey
from
@DrexelUniv
for winning the ASB EARLY CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD! Insightful talk on Significant intramuscular compliance is required to account for sarcomere shortening in the in situ human gracilis muscle
#ASB2023
#ASB2023
week is here! We are thrilled to share this terrific line-up of sessions and events. Thanks to the organizing committee for putting it all together!
#ASBstudents
mark you calendars for Summer Student Networking Night on Wed, July 20 @ 8 pm ET/7ct/6mt/5pt!
Meet other
#biomechanics
students, get questions answered, share wisdom, and put names with faces ahead of upcoming conferences!
Get link here:
Don't miss out on submitting abstracts for
@ASB2020_ATL
conference that are due in 3 weeks. Abstracts are due by 5 PM EDT on Friday, March 13. There will be NO deadline extension.
For submission guidelines and template, visit
#ASB2020
#biomechanics
It is with extreme sadness that we share the loss of one of our community members Dr. Steven Stanhope on August 2nd. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and well-wishers.
Can't get enough biomechanics? Check out this new podcast from the International Society of Biomechanics. The first five episodes are available now and new ones will be coming every few weeks!
ASB focuses a lot on mentoring and student development! The Mentor-Mentee Lunch event was jam-packed today with a lot of rich discussions! Kudos to the ASB Student Rep Anna Bailes and her team for pulling this off! 🙏🏾 to all the mentors who signed up for this event at
#ASB2024
Join us in congratulating the newly elected members and winners of the 2020
@AmSocBiomech
Awards. We can't wait to meet and hear from you all at the
@ASB2020_ATL
conference.
#biomechanics
Here we go! Welcome to
#ASB2024
that is kicking off with pre-conference tutorials! Thank you to folks who are busily working @ the registration desk! Looking forward to seeing you all! Have a great conference & don't forget to use
#ASB2024
& tag
@AmSocBiomech
in all your posts!
Get excited for
#ASB2023
! The
@AmSocBiomech
Executive Board members are meeting in Knoxville this weekend to check out the space and have the mid-year meeting! See you in Knoxville!
We are excited to announce our first of TWO Keynotes at
#ASB2024
! Dr. Guldberg is Director of the Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact & VP of the University of Oregon!
#biomechanics
@UOKnightCampus
#MadisonWI
Learn more:
📢 2022 ASB Award Announcement 🎉
JEAN LANDA PYTEL AWARD FOR DIVERSITY MENTORSHIP IN BIOMECHANICS:
Brian Davis, Cleveland State University
Award Session Presentation: Aug 24, 10:45–12:15
Hearty congratulations, Brian Davis
@CLE_State
@NACoBiomechs
@ASB2022_NACOB
#biomechanics
Job Market Poster Session - a UNIQUE session for recruiting enthusiastic PhD students, postdocs and other individuals actively on the job market in the coming year - first time at
#ASB2023
! Kudos to the Program Chair
@rosshm16
and his team!
#ASBstudents
Author AMA Teaser:
Surface EMG is a simple technology, but the data we collect from it are complex. In this talk,
@avigotsky
will discuss some of the factors that influence surface EMG amplitudes and thus its interpretability.
2/17 @ 5:30 ET
DM or email for link.
#ASBStudents
It's
#ConferenceTipTuesday
! Check out these poster tips if you need a refresher on how to show off your research.
Check back every Tuesday to make sure you're prepared for
#Knoxville
Dr. Catherine Kuo
@KuoLab
giving the 1st keynote on Inspiring tendon therapeutic strategies with developmental mechanobiology
Fascinating work and a great example of the diversity of topics being presented at
#ASB2023
this year!
Our 10th
#ASBFellows
spotlight is Dr. Joseph J. (Trey) Crisco! He served as our president in 2004-05 as well as Membership Committee Chair, Program Chair, and Meeting Chair. He was also the first winner of the Goel Award for Translational Research in Biomechanics in 2017!
Our 2nd
#ASBFellows
spotlight is Dr. Ronald Zernicke! He is a past President of ASB,
@ISBiomechanics
, AND
@CSBiomech
! In addition to his numerous awards in biomechanics, Dr. Zernicke also received the UCLA Award for Distinguished Teaching and City of Calgary Award for Education!
Hay Memorial Award lecture by award winner Rick Neptune on Neuromechanical analyses of human movement: Insight into balance control mechanisms along with incredible presentations from Anne Silverman
@ProfSilver
, Jessica Allen, and Lena Ting at
#ASB2023
Who is excited to attend
#ASB2023
!
Here is some important information related to the Annual Meeting starting next week! check it out!
See you all next week!
ASB is offering a✨NEW✨ Regular Membership sub-category for Early Career Members! This rate will be available for those who have completed their terminal degree and have begun their career within FIVE years (<5 years).
@biomechnewbies
@ASBPostdocs
Borelli Award talk by Dr. Antonie J. (Ton) van den Bogert. This award is the most prestigious honor given by the ASB recognizing outstanding career accomplishment & awarded to an investigator who has conducted exemplary research in any area of biomechanics
#ASB2024
#biomechanics