Introducing: Dr. McCrady! Allie McCrady’s defense talk describing her novel work imaging and modeling muscle in neuromuscular diseases was “ultra” high “quality”, filled with a large “quantity” of interesting findings with “strong” clinical implications! Virginia BME #muscleiscool

Introducing Dr. DiSalvo! From adding force-velocity to constitutive models to modeling superior constrictor muscle activation in the pharyngeal wall, Matt’s 'superior' defense talk 'transmitted' many contributions that will 'speed' up progress in the field! Virginia BME #muscleiscool

Our own Megan Haase is a 'role' 'model' for how to 'fuse' experiments and models to advance muscle science. Her ORS talk: 'Coupling Experimental and Computational Methods for Insight into Estrogen’s Role in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration' was awesome! #muscleiscool

Can muscle models also be applied to coming 'up' with award winning gingerbread houses?? Apparently yes, because the UVA M3 Lab also won the BME 2023 gingerbread competition, with a beautiful 'model' of the house from the movie 'Up'! Virginia BME

This👇is a beautiful example of the 'type' of impactful work that collaboration across fields can produce. So thankful to work on this paper with Sue Brookes, Kate Saul Kate Saul⁩, and Karyn Esser kaesser, who are all 'forces' to be reckoned with! #muscleiscool #hiddenbuzzballs

Can muscle models be applied to winning at tug of war?? The UVA M3 Lab knows, but we'll never share our secrets! Thanks to friends from the Chris Highley, Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, and UVA EASIL labs for helping us 'pull' off yet another Virginia BME tug of war tournament title!!

Our PI, Dr. Blemker, continues to demonstrate excellence in all that she does and is an incredible role 'model' for us all!! #muscleiscool #Silviaiscooler

Congratulations to M3 lab member Ridhi Sahani Ridhi Sahani for winning the All-University Graduate Teaching award, recognizing her outstanding, “dynamic” co-teaching of BME 2220 Biomechanics as UVA Engineering teaching fellow! What an amazing “moment” for an amazing person!

The “muscle myth busters” (Drs. Blemker, Brooks, Esser, and Saul) lead an excellent session on muscle fiber type traps at the #Myology2023 Meeting! These “strong” women scientists are helping the field “soar” to new heights and avoid falling in common “traps”! #MyoTwitter

Congratulations to Megan on an awesome PhD proposal describing her complex models and experiments to uncover the role of estrogen levels on muscle regeneration! Megan has “generated” new ideas for the field and “leveled” up agent based modeling techniques! #muscleiscool

Lab director Silvia Blemker had the honor of being featured on the awesome Biomechanics On Our Minds Podcast (BOOM) podcast -- a 'power'ful avenue for sharing the 'boom'ing field biomechanics with the world! #muscleiscool Virginia BME