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Exciting paper that replicates the hierarchical mechanics of tendon and other soft tissues in a hydrogel, further establishing the role of interfacial sliding as an effective toughening mechanism in biology

Excited that my first paper in engineering education has been published in the journal Biomedical Engineering Education. It studied the impact of adding content on inequality and bias into BME curricula on women's intent to persist in BME post-graduation.

Excited to publish this comprehensive assessment of tendon structure-function relationships during development using a battery of experimental and computational approaches! Great collaborating with @rolfera @Prof_H_McCarthy @njdunne_lab @DrNiamhBuckley @PennStateBME @mcanonicco.

Congrats to @krishna1996 and @paschall_lauren for expertly presenting their work at another great @ORSsociety Annual Meeting! @ors_tendon @PennStateBME

#ORS2024 Yum!!! @ORSsociety @paschall_lauren @krishna1996

For all @ors_tendon and education fans at #ORS2024, please come check out our talks and poster presentations this Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday @ORSsociety @krishna1996 @paschall_lauren @PennStateBME

Congrats to @krishna1996! Very proud of you and what you have accomplished during your PhD! Thanks for all your hard work getting the lab off the ground. Excited to continue to see you at future conferences and hear about you work at @HSpecialSurgery

Congrats to @krishna1996 for successfully defending his dissertation on an explant model of tendon degeneration! It's been a long journey but very proud of him and his accomplishments. Also great to see that big smile again!

Congrats to @paschall_lauren for her first pub on the sex-specific mechanobiology of ACL explants! Very exciting work suggesting a novel mechanobiological mechanism for increased ACL ruptures in women. @Tabdanov @Hrsheysportsdoc @PennStateBME @PennStOrtho

Calling all MSK researchers: @PennStOrtho is hiring a new Vice Chair of Research to head all research activities within the Ortho dept. as well as the Center for Orthopaedic Research and Translational Sciences. Follow the link for more info and to apply:

This was the scene at today’s “lab meeting” for which my grad students prepared a celebration for my tenure announcement. So grateful to have the opportunity to do great science with even better people! @krishna1996 @paschall_lauren @mcanonicco and Maggs. 💕

Just got the news that I've been granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor @PennStateBME. Thank you to all my graduate students, mentors (@dawn_m_elliott @RobertMauck11), and colleagues who helped me make it! I am so appreciative of your support and effort! ❤️.

Congrats to @krishna1996 on his second paper! Although mouse Achilles tendons degenerate with fatigue loading, he found that they exhibit very little collagen denaturation, suggesting that this damage mechanism does not initiate tendon degeneration.

Of course, publishing an open-source code in a journal that most institutions don't have access to is sort of silly. So we also posted the code and instructions for use on the MathWorks File Exchange: Hope people find it helpful!.

I know that measuring local tissue strains in tendon is not new, BUT we just published a validated open-source MATLAB code that anyone can use: Additionally, the code will tell you if the strain fields are inaccurate without knowing the true strains!.

It was a great pleasure working with David Corr at RPI on this perspective article providing a review and recommendations for tendon cell and tissue culture. Thanks to everyone at the 2022 Tendon Section meeting that helped contribute. Truly a team effort!

Had such a great time at #ORS2023! Great to meet up with colleagues, learn a lot, and have fun. I’m a little sad to go home from one of the best annual meetings ever! @rolfera @BenPetersonMGH @krishna1996 @mcanonicco @DrNiamhBuckley @ors_tendon

If interested, come check out our work on YAP signaling during tendon development and studying tendon degeneration in an ex vivo model. Poster Session 1, Papers # 1151, 1163, and 2151.