Prof. Kersh gives Beckman Directors Seminar

It was an exciting start of the Spring 2019 semester.  Prof. Kersh was invited by her fellow MechSE colleagues to give the MechSE department seminar in January.  A few weeks later, she gave the Beckman Directors Seminar.  Both talks featured the excellent work of the graduate students from the TBL. <Prof. Kersh>: It was a […]

Welcome to Roberto Pineda!

We are happy to have Roberto Pineda join the TBL!  Roberto will investigate the contribution of collagen to ligament mechanics in human and animal tissues.  This data will be used to develop synthetic analogs for a knee simulator.  Special thanks to the JumpArches program for funding this work.

Back to back papers in JBMR!

New work on how different activities generate strain in bone using coupled musculoskeletal and finite element models. Kersh ME,Martelli S, Zebaze R, Seeman E, Pandy MG. Mechanical loading of the femoral neck in human locomotion.Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 33(11), 1999-2006, 2018. Congrats to Lydia Bakalova on her paper published in JBMR!  Lydia investigated […]

World Congress Biomechanics 2018

We were excited to have two abstracts presented at the 2018 World Congress of Biomechanics in Dublin.  Sara and Hyunggwi presented their work on the biomechanics of bone growth and did a great job.               Overall UIUC MechSE had a great showing with 6 professors attending!

Kersh Tech Institute Talks Summer 2018

Summer started with Prof. Kersh giving a seminar at the Grenoble Institute of Technology followed by a visit to Prof. Ralph Muller at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.  Special thanks to Prof. Wagoner Johnson for hosting the visit!  I (Prof. Kersh) was particularly inspired by the gondola rides – and loves these beautiful drawings of them.

2018 – Image of research and UIUC URS

Big congratulations to TBL members that were big winners at the end of the Spring 2018 semester. First, MS candidate Sara Moshage, was a finalist and ultimate winner of the campus wide image of research competition.  Sara put together a great story about her research on our first foal that we have monitored to understand […]

2018 – ORS

I’m catching up on lab news, but we have had a fantastic couple of months (er, half a year) that have kept us busy.  Mariana and Ida attended ORS in New Orleans and had a great time.  Ida presented her poster on her algorithm that can be used to separate subchondral from cortical bone which […]

February talks from the lab

Prof. Kersh gave two talks in February.  The first was at the Danish Bone Research Workshop where she summarized our work in multi-scale bone mechanics with bone histomorphometry gurus Thomas Andersen and Christina Andreasen as well as micro-CT wizard Jesper Thomsen. Back in Illinois, Prof. Kersh gave the February TechTalk at the Beckman Institute describing […]

Munsur Rahman presents at SICB 2018

TBL post-doc Munsur Rahman is presenting work on behalf of our group and collaborator John Polk’s Evolutionary Biomechanics Laboratory, at the annual Society for Intergrative and Comparative Biology meeting in San Francisco.  We are studying the effect of postural differences on trabecular and subchondral bone properties using an ovine model of exercise.  Munsur will present […]