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. doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2…

My first graduate student @BenPetersonPSU defended his dissertation today! 🎉 So proud and a little surreal. Not because I didn’t think he could do it, he rocks! It was just hard to fathom when I was a student myself that I would have my own academic lineage one day.

So proud and excited that my first first-author book chapter just got published! 🤩Check out how mechanical stimulation can be both the cause and cure of tendon and ligament injuries! doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95…

Hey @ElliottLab @MauckLab @DymentLabPenn @BenPetersonPSU @krishna1996 @paschall_lauren @brianneconnizzo @mattbfish @BabakNSafa @dhcortes55 @OConnell_Lab! Who wants to meet up at the #SB3C2021 Biergarten around 9pm EDT tomorrow (Thursday)? RT and pass the word around.

Please check out my other student @BenPetersonPSU give his talk tomorrow during the #SB3C PhD student paper competition for "Mechanobiology and Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering." Awesome work on the mechanoregulation of tendon multiscale mechanics during embryonic development!

Hope everyone is enjoying and able to focus on the 2021 #SB3C! Quick plug to check out my student's @krishna1996 talk on the lack of collagen denaturation in fatigue loaded mouse Achilles tendons during tomorrow's session "Ligament and Tendon Mechanics: Modeling and Measurement"

Hey everyone at #BMES2020! Check out my on-demand talk "Dependence of Tendon Multiscale Mechanics on Sample Length is Consistent with Discontinuous Fibrils". Any questions? Come chat at the Biomechanics Q&A tomorrow @ 4:15-5:15pm EST.